Example sentences of "[prep] the corner of his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 2 | Ember 's gaze slid out of the corners of his eyes . |
| 3 | And he gave me one of his really wicked looks out of the corners of his eyes . |
| 4 | ‘ Rule of Life ? ’ asked Werewolf out of the corner of his beard . |
| 5 | ‘ Which one 's the conifer ? ’ he said out of the corner of his beard . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Huckleberry 's tongue was protruding out of the corner of his mouth and flapping in the breeze ! |
| 8 | ‘ Shut up , ’ said Drew out of the corner of his mouth . |
| 9 | Nathan boomed and brayed so enthusiastically that his mother had to mop up a dribble of saliva that trickled out of the corner of his mouth . |
| 10 | The Fat Controller blew a plume of cigar smoke at it from out of the corner of his mouth ; the blue strands interleaved with her browner ones . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a custom , ’ my master muttered out of the corner of his mouth . |
| 12 | ‘ Look blacker , fool , ’ he said out of the corner of his mouth as they stepped into the cold darkness of the outer ward , ‘ and drag your feet . |
| 13 | A thin red snake of blood trickled out of the corner of his mouth ; his chest was an open , bubbling mass of blood where he had received his death wound . |
| 14 | He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye , wondering if he dare ask for water to help wash the cake down . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | He sat on the edge of the bed with his usual cynical observations , but he kept looking out of the corner of his eye . |
| 17 | Out of the corner of his eye , he saw the girl coming towards him . |
| 18 | Once he was doing this during a speech by Jimmy Logan who caught sight of the scribbling out of the corner of his eye . |
| 19 | Our of the corner of his eye the Major could see Harrison smirking , and he felt his temper rising . |
| 20 | Out of the corner of his eye he could see Mr Chan trying to comfort Steve while Ho stood by his side , staring at the Monument in terrified fascination . |
| 21 | Out of the corner of his eye he saw a face appear in the corridor . |
| 22 | Out of the corner of his eye he saw some wirelesses in a shop window . |
| 23 | Out of the corner of his eye , Hank could see her stricken face . |
| 24 | Out of the corner of his eye , Markby saw Pearce , taking notes in the background , shift in his chair . |
| 25 | Out of the corner of his eye the Captain took in the man 's elegant , obviously expensive clothes , noted the perfume not quite smothered by cigar smoke , and remembered the remark about whether it was worthwhile going to bed . |
| 26 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 27 | The mosaic occupied much of his consciousness so that he was only dimly aware — out of the corner of his eye , and mind 's eye — of Meh'Lindi , a flexible ebon statue of herself , yet still with an ivory face . |
| 28 | Slipping on his gloves , he saw out of the corner of his eye the sun rising above a belt of dark blue . |
| 29 | At the door he saw out of the corner of his eye the black limousine was still there . |
| 30 | Out of the corner of his eye , he saw a movement . |