Example sentences of "[verb] in the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two chauffeurs linger in the corner , one white with blond hair , the other a good-looking black guy . |
| 2 | I sometimes used to help him out with double dates , but they always ended with both girls squabbling over yours truly and Stuart sulking in the corner and displaying all the charisma of a limpet . |
| 3 | He suffers from a ‘ sense of injured merit ’ , and like a spoiled child , sulking in the corner , he sulks in Hell and vows always to defy good for the sake of evil , in the vain hope of getting his own back . |
| 4 | Aggie looked up and down the narrow street ; then , taking a chain with a lock attached to it from under a piece of sacking in the corner of the cart , she pushed the cart close to the gate , and tied a leg of it to the iron post . |
| 5 | A pile of toy animals lies in the corner of the gallery in Telling Tales . |
| 6 | Still no takers for this ‘ mirror to all you wish to remember ’ and now it is down £1.95 , or was there a 95p tag lurking in the corner of the flyleaf ? |
| 7 | The two hedgers and ditchers were flat out and snoring in the corner pew . |
| 8 | The rowan tree ( Sorbus aucuparia ) or in Gaelic , which stands in the corner of the kitchen garden or just beyond the house or byre , has protected the home , the family and the cattle from witches and fairies for centuries , and has endured after many a homestead has been deserted . |
| 9 | Henry stands in the corner , too expectant to be rude . |
| 10 | The renewed buzzing of a fly trapped in the corner of the pane ceased to seem quite so near . |
| 11 | In the yard next to ours was a tiny cottage squeezed in the corner . |
| 12 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 13 | She was addressing a massive and gaudy macaw perched in the corner , side-facing her suspiciously . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 16 | Clustered in the corner of an airless photographic studio , five worried mothers are discussing what to give their children for dinner . |
| 17 | A notice on the wall said that it was forbidden to serve drinks to Muslims and a television set flickered in the corner . |
| 18 | An echo : Once in fourth grade , he was sent to stand in the corner , next to the blackboard ; whilst there , he powdered his face with white chalk and when he turned around he was a clown , beaming a smile at the class like The Joker in Batman . |
| 19 | ‘ You get any closer to him , my lass , and he 'll have to stand in the corner till he cools down , ’ said Werewolf , draining the last of his wine . |
| 20 | Motionless on his stool , Frankie stared first at Buddie 's dark profile , then at the huge brown and black body curled in the corner . |
| 21 | Although the moon had set , they could see Maldita 's ghostly white body slumped in the corner like a cast-off shroud . |
| 22 | They were like untrained puppies or untrained kittens ; they messed in the corner of any room ’ . |
| 23 | From then on he sat cowering in the corner beside his case praying for the journey to end and did not dare move , look down or even breath . |
| 24 | Seeing his friend cowering in the corner of his cage at the mercy of the teachers , he felt the tears swell up in his eyes . |
| 25 | Proctor gathered the rebound and scored in the corner . |
| 26 | That gave Fallon the overlap and he scored in the corner . |
| 27 | But yes , there was his name written in the corner . |
| 28 | Still , we reached the end in a while , and I stood up and tugged him back until he was sitting wedged in the corner , supported by the rear and side walls . |
| 29 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 30 | " We are planning to have a Victorian summerhouse built in the corner so the tiles will then be inside it . " |