Example sentences of "have [verb] in the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last people were going to see the real Dorothy , the real live woman behind that starchy old madam who 'd sat in the corner for all those years , hiding from the world in general . |
| 2 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 3 | ‘ You get any closer to him , my lass , and he 'll have to stand in the corner till he cools down , ’ said Werewolf , draining the last of his wine . |
| 4 | Gedanken suddenly remembered the roll of rubber sheeting — the one she had seen in the corner of the laboratory . |
| 5 | like they 've had in the corner , he likes it does he ? |
| 6 | I had to dive in the corner and make like a garden gnome … ’ |
| 7 | She just wanted to collapse on to the bed she had spotted in the corner and sleep for about a week . |
| 8 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 9 | He 's fucked in the corner . |