Example sentences of "of the corner of [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She stood lighting a cigarette and looking at my mother out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ember 's gaze slid out of the corners of his eyes . |
| 5 | And he gave me one of his really wicked looks out of the corners of his eyes . |
| 6 | This is handy , for we can thus spot potential danger and react rapidly to input gleaned out of the corners of our eyes . |
| 7 | Suddenly , out of the corner of its eye , it sees the red super-gape of a young cuckoo , in the nest of a bird of some quite different species . |
| 8 | indeed out of the corner of its eye . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm — ’ She looked round to see no one was in earshot , then mumbled the words quickly out of the corner of her mouth as if they were not really her responsibility : , I 'm sorry . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If you keep talking to me he might think we have n't seen him , ’ Benny hissed out of the corner of her mouth . |
| 11 | Bernice whispered to the Doctor out of the corner of her mouth . |
| 12 | Out of the corner of her mouth — and she did it with great flair — Sorrel said : |
| 13 | And , out of the corner of her eye , Jinny saw that it was true . |
| 14 | She looked up at me out of the corner of her eye and lowered her voice . |
| 15 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw Prentice moving closer . |
| 16 | Agnes looked at Sadie out of the corner of her eye without turning round . |
| 17 | She crunched appreciatively and watched the urchin out of the corner of her eye . |
| 18 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw a man in a white coat floundering through the snow towards them , and in some intuitive way this increased her anxiety to be off . |
| 19 | She was smiling and making money and catching people out of the corner of her eye . |
| 20 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw Tweed glance again in the wing mirror . |
| 21 | Sometimes , in fact , she had felt she was in danger of neglecting the rest of her pupils for though her voice continued to drone on , snapping out an instruction here , a correction there , she was in reality watching Paula out of the corner of her eye , and experiencing the same excitement of discovery that she had felt on the day when Paula had first walked into her office . |
| 22 | She was watching Edward out of the corner of her eye . |
| 23 | It had been a mere moment of whiteness seen out of the corner of her eye but it had not moved purposefully like a horse does with a rider . |
| 24 | Then , out of the corner of her eye , Perdita saw Angel approaching . |
| 25 | Out of the corner of her eye , she watched her husband staring down at the cot . |
| 26 | Out of the corner of her eye she was aware of the group of horses and riders . |
| 27 | She saw the shadowy movement out of the corner of her eye and she was still reaching for her Beretta when she was struck heavily on the shoulder , knocking the Geiger-Muller counter from her hand . |
| 28 | She was about to reach for her drink when she caught sight of the car out of the corner of her eye as it pulled up on the opposite side of the road — a white BMW , identical to the one her uncle had . |
| 29 | Her face was turned away , as if she had seen something out of the corner of her eye . |
| 30 | She caught , out of the corner of her eye , his gesture of disagreement . |