Example sentences of "[art] corner of [pos pn] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had finished she sat in the corner of her bedroom and wept . |
| 2 | Wiping her tears with the corner of her apron and clutching the baby to her she searched for the reasons for this volte-face . |
| 3 | She looked up at me out of the corner of her eye and lowered her voice . |
| 4 | She saw the shadowy movement out of the corner of her eye and she was still reaching for her Beretta when she was struck heavily on the shoulder , knocking the Geiger-Muller counter from her hand . |
| 5 | so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer . |
| 6 | At night the whole family slept in a rough shelter on the corner of their land and at the edge of the forest . |
| 7 | They glanced shyly at him out of the corner of their eyes and giggled , remembering his appeal of the night before . |
| 8 | I could see him out of the corner of my eye and I thought , I 'm going to stick with him . |
| 9 | So this boy is looking at the irises and I 'm doing the VAT on a multiple despatch but I 'm also looking out of the corner of my eye and thinking , ‘ You 're a Monday to Friday . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 11 | I took him to the ‘ Tally 's ’ ( ice-cream shop ) at the corner of our street and Bedford Street — and bought him a large cone . |
| 12 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 13 | The feelings may be imagined of the pupil who rashly let fall a slighting reference to Sohrab and Rustum , to be answered by Lewis 's brandishing an old regimental sword of his brother 's which stood in the corner of his room and shouting , ‘ The sword must settle this ! ’ |
| 14 | Huckleberry 's tongue was protruding out of the corner of his mouth and flapping in the breeze ! |
| 15 | A thread of spittle ran from the corner of his mouth and down his chin . |
| 16 | His shirt was n't clean and he had the beginnings of a pimple at the corner of his mouth and another about to burst above the knot of his cravat . |
| 17 | He dared not pull away , even though he did not want her to feel his changing body , but at this point one of her gentle caresses touched the corner of his mouth and before he could stop himself his mouth was on hers , and restrain himself as he might it was a lover 's kiss , not a friend 's . |
| 18 | He poured the neat whisky into the corner of his mouth and wriggled with slow , painful relief . |
| 19 | Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ? |
| 20 | Blood had begun to run into the corner of his eye and he blinked to try and clear his vision . |
| 21 | But Mr Watson said that Mr Ross saw the briefcase from the corner of his eye and did not see Mr Garvey . |
| 22 | Cranston glanced at Athelstan out of the corner of his eye and smiled at the barbed reminder what was true of Fulke and others in the Tower was also true of his relationship with the Lady Maude . |
| 23 | He had reached the corner of his street and was searching in his pocket for his key , when a dark figure came out of the shadows and crossed the road towards him . |
| 24 | Roman sat on a corner of her desk and looked at her with such a grave expression that she cried out in alarm . |
| 25 | And with the dual-voltage facility , you can tuck this neat styler in a corner of your case and look great at home or away ! |