Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun bled into the corner of his eye |
| 2 | She ducked into the cubicle , hardly conscious of the cameraman tucked into the corner . |
| 3 | The patron moved to the corner of the bar , clear of everyone 's earshot , and began drying glasses . |
| 4 | The organisation housed on the corner of Old Broad Street and Throgmorton Street has mercifully reverted to a name which accurately describes where it is and what it does . |
| 5 | We had gone round the other arm of the terrace , into the shadow cast by the corner of the bedroom wall . |
| 6 | Turning the eye reveals a different view through the cubic grid ; the three point geometry is based upon a pyramid sliced from the corner of a cube . |
| 7 | A short time later , on the other side , she came to a noticeboard set at the corner of a road which left the main highway . |
| 8 | The men sheltered under a tarpaulin slung across the corner of the barge . |
| 9 | I never saw the mail robber , though Tom played with his children — and caught nits from them , to Nonni 's horror — and I got to know his sister , Elsie : a thin woman with stiff , blonde hair who was never without a cigarette stuck to the corner of her mouth . |
| 10 | She pointed to the figure of a man propped in the corner , and the cylinders of oxygen in the back pack lying beside it . |
| 11 | Tramps slept there à la corde , standing , their arms hooked over a rope slung from the corners of the room . |
| 12 | Ah well there 's a caravan parked round the corner . |
| 13 | The first she knew of the assault was a motion glimpsed from the corner of her eye : a blurred form approaching her at speed through the thickening sleet . |
| 14 | In each place a crowd of men in blue overalls , each with a Gauloise stuck in the corner of his mouth , stared into the mirror behind the bar at the reflection of any women who braved their domain . |
| 15 | She looked like a goner piled into the corner , one claw poking out , eye a milky slit , panting like a cat in a car . |
| 16 | Marx was there , leaning on the door-frame , a hat rammed on the back of his head , a cigar jammed in the corner of his mouth , blinking his bloodshot eyes . |
| 17 | The renewed buzzing of a fly trapped in the corner of the pane ceased to seem quite so near . |