Example sentences of "the corner " in BNC.
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1 | The same angle was conspicuous in the title story of Naipaul 's previous book , In a Free State , where a coup in a new African country was studied , as it were , out of the corner of an eye ; and it also occurs elsewhere in his work . |
2 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
3 | Round the corner was Dixon 's Blazes , a blast furnace , and the Workers ' Circle , where dreams of socialist emancipation were debated — dreams which were soon to fade for Glasser . |
4 | Yet it is easy for pioneer users and IT investors to remain with the tried and tested applications and miss out on the cutting edge opportunities just around the corner . |
5 | And there , on the third step , upside down in the corner by the wall , was Bunty 's other sandal — dainty lacy white straps with the arched instep and the two-inch heel hanging half off . |
6 | He walked past Claire 's room and turned the corner . |
7 | I expected Father to chase me , but when I reached the corner and looked back he was just standing there talking to the thin man . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | As it turned out , rather too much excitement was just around the corner . |
10 | Soon I was round the corner again and on my way back to the station . |
11 | Young Donald leaned his long-barrelled small-shot gun in the corner by the door and then his face darkened over . |
12 | Menzies the old bon vivant had not a fraction of Atholl 's strength , he would not dare to turn them away , and if he did they would go in there with sticks and clubs and — As Cameron felt his anger rising , he swallowed it , took up his own cherrywood stick from the corner , and went hack outside . |
13 | The plural is required for this multi-talented worker : his ground-floor music-room included a chair , a not over-expensive hi-fi unit with a modest collection of cassette tapes and a synthesiser ; in the corner stands one of his guitars . |
14 | He shivered ; he put the central heating on ‘ constant ’ ; he went round the corner for a bottle of whisky . |
15 | They parted at the corner of St Martin 's Lane and Gillian made her way home on her own . |
16 | She dressed hurriedly , made herself a snack , took the bike and wheeled it round the corner of the cottage into the front garden . |
17 | I directed him to the corner where I knew the compost heap was . |
18 | Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them . |
19 | The corner braces form the Gothic arch shape as well as keeping the whole structure rigid |
20 | Turning the Corner . |
21 | And another one is just round the corner as this book is published . |
22 | From an extensive range at the Stiftungs brewery tap ( built in 1698 , reconstructed in 1816 , at the corner of Haager and Munchen streets ) , I greatly enjoyed the Weisse ( good clove character ) ; the Dunkelweizen ( dates ? anise ? |
23 | At least a third of the route takes the steep open wall to the left of the corner and the climb as a whole demands a wide range of climbing technique . |
24 | Above , a steep rib requires a ridiculously long reach before an easy traverse leads back into the corner . |
25 | The moves up to gain the famous Bower ledge are nothing less than brutal with the corner crack first expanding to chimney-like proportions then closing again to slim finger-crack holds . |
26 | Impressively placed and considerably exposed , it hangs on the vertical right wall of the corner with a straight drop to North-West Gully , an uninterrupted 150ft ( 45m ) below . |
27 | I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge . |
28 | Climb the steep rib , a long reach being a distinct advantage , until a traverse leads right back into the corner crack . |
29 | Keep in the corner crack , passing a ledge , all the way to the top . |
30 | Graham stormed up the corner he had cleaned . |