Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gestured towards the small wet bar installed in a corner of the room . |
| 2 | A tattered brown tarpaulin bundled in the corner of the shed ? |
| 3 | The old woman sat in a corner by the range . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | In the yard next to ours was a tiny cottage squeezed in the corner . |
| 7 | His ice-blue gaze darted into every corner of the room . |
| 8 | " We are planning to have a Victorian summerhouse built in the corner so the tiles will then be inside it . " |
| 9 | The economic crisis reached into every corner of city life . |
| 10 | Although the moon had set , they could see Maldita 's ghostly white body slumped in the corner like a cast-off shroud . |
| 11 | A squashed hand-rolled cigarette dangled from the corner of his mouth . |
| 12 | The ventral arm plates are much wider than long with an obtuse proximal angle and a straight distal edge rounded at the corners and indented midradially . |
| 13 | Then she saw a wrought-iron gate set in the corner , and hurried towards it . |
| 14 | Suddenly a small single-decker bus appeared at a corner not far away . |
| 15 | An odd smile tugged at the corners of his firm mouth . |
| 16 | A cruel smile played at the corners of his mouth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nathan gave a brief shrug , and a wry , self-mocking smile flickered at the corners of his mouth . |
| 19 | Though a mocking smile played at the corners of his chiselled mouth , his voice had a caustic bite . |
| 20 | Your blond hair bouncing like a corner boy 's , |
| 21 | She held her breath as the road widened slightly , and with a roar the Aston Martin shot forward , only just reaching the safety of the road ahead before a black saloon appeared around the corner . |
| 22 | Congealed black blood stains in the corner cracks make her look like a baby bird on a diet of blackberries . |
| 23 | As the room lit , an image crossed his vision — of a thin black figure seated in a corner , crouching witch-like in the gloom . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Kicking at pine cones on the path , Mungo was halfway to the top of the slope when a slight figure appeared round the corner of the station entrance . |
| 26 | Motionless on his stool , Frankie stared first at Buddie 's dark profile , then at the huge brown and black body curled in the corner . |
| 27 | Exploring the area , Nails found a decent garden shed in a corner of the graveyard , well-hidden behind an overgrown yew-hedge , and he moved in there with his sleeping bag . |
| 28 | A black rag flaps across the corner of the eye — ; Blackbird homing from green — ; And this rain is trickling down gulleys , into the splits |
| 29 | It was a substantial house standing at the corner of a tree-lined street in an Irish neighbourhood of the city . |
| 30 | Félicité et Perpétue crept up the mellow brickwork , and Gloire de Dijon climbed higher , and there were heavy dark crimson Bourdons and Portland roses in the borders and pink Ce/1leste clumped at the corners with its paler leaves . |