Example sentences of "[prep] a dark corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her name was Gail Danski , a prim-looking chick , but not so prim when you got her into a dark corner , as he had once discovered when taking her home after a school dance . |
| 2 | A large emerald ring flashed a spot of light into a dark corner of the room . |
| 3 | From a dark corner of the stairs we admired the ladies as they went up to their rooms , and then again as they descended to dinner in their elegant evening dresses . |
| 4 | Sitting there , in a dark corner of the wrecked kiosk , she exorcised those disturbing , violent images with soothing visions of the Lock . |
| 5 | She hid in a dark corner . |
| 6 | They were in a dark corner behind the bandstand in the park and had quickly gone through all the other stages , including the one Sally liked best , kissing and pressing the lower half of their bodies close together as if they were dancing . |
| 7 | I cried on reading that , quietly , in a dark corner of our hall . |
| 8 | A loaded trolley had a white cloth that looked pink draped over it and an oxygen cylinder was just visible in a dark corner . |
| 9 | Mrs Watts sat in a deep chair in a dark corner of the room but Hari had the impression that the woman was like a cat sleeping with one eye open , watching everything that went on . |
| 10 | Lungwort ( Pulmonaria offinicalis ) makes a change in a dark corner , while sweet woodruff ( Galium odoratum ) romps away in these conditions . |
| 11 | Raoul and Christine sat in a dark corner , and Raoul took Christine 's hands . |
| 12 | On the way down I fell over a man hiding in a dark corner , who ran away immediately . |
| 13 | I climbed up to the gateway of the bridge and hid in a dark corner . |
| 14 | In silence , Alexandra and Lyddy turned away and fumbled together in a dark corner . |
| 15 | The passenger was sitting in a dark corner and I could not see his face . |
| 16 | We can have ( 52 ) but never ( 53 ) : ( 52 ) Lewis left the bag in a dark corner his short answer irritated her ( 53 ) Lewis left the bag in a corner dark his answer short irritated her In suggesting the elements from which an answer can be constructed , we should bear in mind that here , as often in syntax , to assume a single explanatory factor risks oversimplifying matters . |
| 17 | I bend to look under a low archway in a dark corner and find a narrow spiral staircase , designed to accommodate only very small and undernourished skivvies . |
| 18 | Round a dark corner with an irate husband behind you . |
| 19 | ‘ Now th'can go out , ’ he said and went with her into the shadow-filled yard ; one long arm guiding her with relentless force past the lighted windows of the inn , past the well and a small cart , past James Lambert walking shakily towards the back door of the inn , to a dark corner behind a group of empty ale kegs . |
| 20 | He carried two chairs and a table over to a dark corner where they could talk more freely . |