Example sentences of "of [noun] in the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old woman was crouched like a bundle of rags in the corner of the hut and Simon was standing in the open doorway . |
| 2 | A heap of rags in the corner suddenly stirred and came to life and Taplow , loaded with chains , got to his feet . |
| 3 | He tried out a badly scratched recording of Dame Nellie Melba singing an operatic aria from Pagliacci which he had found tucked away between a box of rusting tools and a sack of potatoes in the corner of his shed . |
| 4 | Decor : The tank bottom is covered with gravel , with a large piece of bogwood in the corner . |
| 5 | Er , you would n't have a great big stack of paper in the corner of the room . |
| 6 | At present the London Implementation Group smells too much of hole in the corner deals : the working part of the group consists only of two named people , one of them a former Thames regional chairman , and the ordinary members of the specialty review committees ( see p 589 ) and of the all important Primary Health Care Forum had not yet been announced as we went to press . |
| 7 | Smith questions whether the group will be able to explain what is happening to staff and patients and says that it ‘ smells too much of hole in the corner deals . ’ |
| 8 | On the chest of drawers in the corner of the room was Malik 's newsletter : SPRING NEWS FROM THE ISLAMIC SCHOOL WIMBLEDON . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's like a shopfront with a little bit of dust in the corner . ’ |
| 10 | But on the other hand as is often the case , there 's so much that you 've got you do n't need , that when you finish your removal you want a whole lot of boxes in the corner out the way until you 've sorted er everything else out . |
| 11 | She noticed now that there was a kind of cupboard in the corner which was likely to contain a washbasin , and a single bed , tucked in with a plaid rug . |