Example sentences of "of the corner of his [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ember 's gaze slid out of the corners of his eyes .
2 And he gave me one of his really wicked looks out of the corners of his eyes .
3 ‘ Rule of Life ? ’ asked Werewolf out of the corner of his beard .
4 ‘ Which one 's the conifer ? ’ he said out of the corner of his beard .
5 He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ?
6 Huckleberry 's tongue was protruding out of the corner of his mouth and flapping in the breeze !
7 ‘ Shut up , ’ said Drew out of the corner of his mouth .
8 Nathan boomed and brayed so enthusiastically that his mother had to mop up a dribble of saliva that trickled out of the corner of his mouth .
9 The Fat Controller blew a plume of cigar smoke at it from out of the corner of his mouth ; the blue strands interleaved with her browner ones .
10 ‘ It 's a custom , ’ my master muttered out of the corner of his mouth .
11 ‘ Look blacker , fool , ’ he said out of the corner of his mouth as they stepped into the cold darkness of the outer ward , ‘ and drag your feet .
12 A thin red snake of blood trickled out of the corner of his mouth ; his chest was an open , bubbling mass of blood where he had received his death wound .
13 He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye , wondering if he dare ask for water to help wash the cake down .
14 Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ?
15 He sat on the edge of the bed with his usual cynical observations , but he kept looking out of the corner of his eye .
16 Out of the corner of his eye , he saw the girl coming towards him .
17 Once he was doing this during a speech by Jimmy Logan who caught sight of the scribbling out of the corner of his eye .
18 Our of the corner of his eye the Major could see Harrison smirking , and he felt his temper rising .
19 Out of the corner of his eye he could see Mr Chan trying to comfort Steve while Ho stood by his side , staring at the Monument in terrified fascination .
20 Out of the corner of his eye he saw a face appear in the corridor .
21 Out of the corner of his eye he saw some wirelesses in a shop window .
22 Out of the corner of his eye , Hank could see her stricken face .
23 Out of the corner of his eye , Markby saw Pearce , taking notes in the background , shift in his chair .
24 Out of the corner of his eye the Captain took in the man 's elegant , obviously expensive clothes , noted the perfume not quite smothered by cigar smoke , and remembered the remark about whether it was worthwhile going to bed .
25 He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye .
26 The mosaic occupied much of his consciousness so that he was only dimly aware — out of the corner of his eye , and mind 's eye — of Meh'Lindi , a flexible ebon statue of herself , yet still with an ivory face .
27 Slipping on his gloves , he saw out of the corner of his eye the sun rising above a belt of dark blue .
28 At the door he saw out of the corner of his eye the black limousine was still there .
29 Out of the corner of his eye , he saw a movement .
30 He was about to speak when he noticed a movement out of the corner of his eye .
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