Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos he 's given a signal too late , and by the time you start to move there 's another vehicle coming round the corner . |
| 2 | At Hyde Park Corner a tiny youngish man was followed onto the train by a large stocky man a sadistic smirk emerging from the corners of his mouth . |
| 3 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 4 | As she walked into the Percy Bar the sight of her youngest son sitting in the corner raised Constance 's spirits . |
| 5 | Through all the turnings of his thoughts one image dogged him — Colberg 's face , so sharply carved , his eyes a wee bit slanting at the corners , his nostrils cut on a long shallow curve , his forehead not rounded but angled above the glossy black hairs at the outside ends of his eyebrows . |
| 6 | So I decided to take them outside for a breath of fresh air , ’ she added , turning her worried blue eyes in mute appeal to the uniformed policewoman sitting in the corner of the room . |
| 7 | 'E 'd come running from the back garden and we nearly bumped into each other coming round the corner of the 'ouse . |
| 8 | Your blond hair bouncing like a corner boy 's , |
| 9 | Miss Honey was still hugging the tiny girl in her arms and neither of them said a word as they stood there watching the big black car tearing round the corner at the end of the road and disappearing for ever into the distance . |
| 10 | It was a substantial house standing at the corner of a tree-lined street in an Irish neighbourhood of the city . |
| 11 | ‘ Why do n't you bribe a waiter to stand outside the door ? ’ she snapped back , then stalked past him without a backward glance , acutely aware of the small smile playing at the corners of his mouth as his gaze followed her . |
| 12 | When he burst out against some restriction , delay , inaccuracy or bureaucratic procedure that was choking him , Laura sat with her hands neatly folded staring straight in front of her , a controlled tear welling in the corner of her eye , but never even near to a response . |
| 13 | 3 Number the ½cm marks from 1 to 12 along one side and 12 to 1 along the other side starting from the corner of the angle . |
| 14 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |
| 15 | They heard the car start at the third try and roar jerkily up the track behind the boathouse , leaving a faint cloud of blue smoke drifting around the corner . |
| 16 | The mad girl crouching in the corner with her frock up and the unforgivable substance coming from her mouth . |