Example sentences of "[noun] from the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two men grabbed a battered old rocking horse from the corner , and rushed it towards Ilse . |
| 2 | I stood the bottle on the tiled mantel and continued my chores , rewarding myself with a coffee and a stolen Woodbine in front of the newly-made fire , before fetching the groceries from the corner shop . |
| 3 | The steady trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth was dripping from his chin onto his coat front . |
| 4 | The Gordon Highlanders had already left , the airmen from the corner table had hoisted kitbags to shoulders and gone their separate ways , and the soldier who had spent the entire evening writing letters called a goodnight and walked out into the darkness . |
| 5 | She could see Klift 's body from the corner of her eye . |
| 6 | In his slow crawl from the corner as he peered for the right number through the flooding windscreen , it had seemed an odd neigh-bourhood for the Fight Game : well-weeded drives , well-painted houses , the cars as recommended by Which ? and Ratepayers ' Association posters in several windows . |
| 7 | ‘ Let's make movies , huh ? ’ he said in English , and gave Miranda a smile from the corner of his mouth as he steered the actor away . |
| 8 | Grabbing the pile of cloth money-bags from the corner of the desk , he turned them upside down one by one . |
| 9 | ‘ Once ! ’ called out Nessie from the corner . |
| 10 | ‘ Your Grace , ’ said Hussey , bent reverently double , and eyeing his widowed kinswoman from the corner of one eye , ‘ if your Grace will but hear me … ’ |
| 11 | But Mr Watson said that Mr Ross saw the briefcase from the corner of his eye and did not see Mr Garvey . |
| 12 | Our plate shows — originally back to front , as is characteristic of the process , but corrected here — a vista of Whitehall from the corner of Trafalgar Square . |
| 13 | She heard muffled groans from the corner of the room by the television . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He turned round , then turned back , looked once more round the room , then shook his head quickly and went to the door , taking his stick from the corner by the washing machine on his way out . |
| 16 | Marshall , after two months of misery and just one goal since his restoration to the front line , nabbed the second with a perfect lob over Bryan Gunn from the corner of the penalty area . |
| 17 | Willie recognized Mr Miller from the corner shop and the young man behind the mesh in the Post Office . |
| 18 | That first droop from the corner of the eyes , the fading blue , the dry fold of skin , the first crêping of the neck which would show how transitory it was , this over-prized perfection . |
| 19 | Very apologetically , she moved a dog from the corner of the sofa nearest to Aunt Tossie and reached for her cup and saucer . |
| 20 | As he looked me up and down I examined him in turn from the corner of my eye . |
| 21 | She slipped her arm through mine , I picked up my rifle from the corner near to the band , who were now packing up their instruments . |
| 22 | A large crowd of spectators from the corner pub helped drag him out of the mud . |
| 23 | He spat blood , and a thin trickle painted a red line from the corner of his mouth to his jawline , whence it dripped onto his coat lapel . |
| 24 | clipped them off and the wind 's blown the flowers from the corner . |
| 25 | The tension of the moment was broken by a groan from the corner . |
| 26 | Collimore will remain a threat from the corner he has just won . |
| 27 | Behind me his body began to beat against the stern of the boat , and as I turned toward him I saw Rachel from the corner of my eye begin to clamber up from her seat and I called out to her to stay sitting and not to stand but she laughed lightly and tossed back her head and I felt Casey behind me clambering into the boat . |
| 28 | With the mass media now part of everyday life and with arguments about bias and balance commonplace , the modern British subject is not likely to succumb to some Saddam sucker punch thrown by the third party from the corner of the living room . |
| 29 | ‘ Now I come to think of it , ’ he said , easing himself down into the depths of his very easy chair , ‘ that Mrs Entwhistle from the corner said there was something about your dad in one of the Sunday papers , I do n't remember which . ’ |