Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rattled in the corner of the great plastic sofa of a back seat . |
| 2 | When she had finished she sat in the corner of her bedroom and wept . |
| 3 | I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education ! |
| 4 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 5 | They were like untrained puppies or untrained kittens ; they messed in the corner of any room ’ . |
| 6 | They had suddenly pulled up his breeches and made him stand in the corner . |
| 7 | They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham . |
| 8 | Jim says we 'll get an electric one because you do n't want a new thing sitting in there and erm it sits in the corner cos I have no room in my units for it . |
| 9 | That gave Fallon the overlap and he scored in the corner . |
| 10 | It 's almost as if he paces in the corner of the office waiting to get his hands on me — and he gets jealous when I 'm writing about someone else . ’ |
| 11 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 12 | He sat in the corner farthest from the door , a good-looking man in his fifties , with a twinkle in his eye despite three years ' captivity , recalling incidents from his Scottish childhood in amazing detail . |
| 13 | At last , when darkness had covered the city , he sat in the corner of a closed taxicab . |
| 14 | It stood in the corner of a small field , larger and more impressive than any I 'd yet seen . |
| 15 | He stood in the corner of the kitchen , hanging his head and peeping through his fingers . |