Example sentences of "[prep] the corners of [pos pn] [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 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 3 | She stood lighting a cigarette and looking at my mother out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 4 | She turned to face him and he saw how her skin was shivering , the self-control leaking out of the corners of her eyes , her face breaking up . |
| 5 | Ember 's gaze slid out of the corners of his eyes . |
| 6 | And he gave me one of his really wicked looks out of the corners of his eyes . |
| 7 | This is handy , for we can thus spot potential danger and react rapidly to input gleaned out of the corners of our eyes . |
| 8 | She pushed a smile into the corners of her mouth . |
| 9 | A dog came to her anxiously ; at its concern , tears ran lavishly down her face , past her snivelling nose , into the corners of her mouth . |
| 10 | That , at least , would be something to look forward to , a new dream , albeit a small one , a poor one , to spread wanly into the corners of her mind and try to fill them ; now that the real dreams had gone . |
| 11 | Spurred by all this travel and transfer , the disease I have called tinnitus tunnelled deep and desperate into the corners of my head . |
| 12 | Standing alone in this pool of moonlight , he puts his thumb and forefinger into the corners of his mouth and , staring out across the houses and the fields and the river valley to the stark moonlit mountains , whistles long and loud into the night . |
| 13 | ‘ We shall cross the river , ’ White Face announced , putting two skinny fingers into the corners of his mouth and whistling to announce our presence . |
| 14 | Rainwater and petrol gushed from the corners of its mouth . |
| 15 | Tears trickled from the corners of her eyes , and she knuckled them away fiercely . |
| 16 | With her little finger she flicked melted lipstick from the corners of her mouth , then dabbed at her nose and cheeks with a small powder-puff . |
| 17 | The make-up did a terrific job , but could n't get rid of the two deep creases that ran from the corners of her mouth to her jawline , or the network of lines on her brow . |
| 18 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 19 | Between the ages of 25 and 30 most of us start to notice lines radiating out from the corners of our eyes . |
| 20 | He stood looking at Fael-Inis from the corners of his eyes , like a trapped hare . |
| 21 | Could he not deliver just one of them , he had asked , looking at Goibniu slyly from the corners of his eyes . |
| 22 | She could see the dark gold lashes feathering his broad cheekbones , and the tiny lines radiating out from the corners of his eyes . |
| 23 | Killion watched from the corners of his eyes . |
| 24 | And each cough that forced its way past his throat brought with it more of the bright frothy blood , which dribbled from the corners of his mouth faster than his red-soaked handkerchief could mop it up . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Life had been-kind to her and there were few lines on her face , except in the corners of her eyes and around her swanlike neck just beneath the chin . |
| 27 | Pearly tears seeded themselves in the corners of her eyes . |
| 28 | She groped around for her panties and shorts , ducking her head to put them on so that he would n't see the tears gathering in the corners of her eyes . |
| 29 | in the corners of her body . |
| 30 | When he smiles , he looks slightly goofy , the skin pulled right over his cheeks like the face children make by sticking their fingers in the corners of their mouths . |