Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slatter was standing over a youth and his girlfriend in the corner . |
| 2 | She noticed one of the wooden struts on the opposite wall had snapped off leaving an aperture the size of a football in the corner of the car . |
| 3 | Some of the others protested at being separated from their belongings , but a Brazilian Corporal in the corner hit two people in the stomach and things moved fast after that . |
| 4 | In ten angular jerks and a trip Ranald rose from his seat in the corner by Luch to open the door for Lady Bridhe to leave . |
| 5 | Mary , who has said nothing up until now , stirs in her seat in the corner of the room . |
| 6 | Charlie grabbed a seat in the corner of an unlit carriage and stared out of the grimy window at a passing English countryside he had never seen before . |
| 7 | Granddad in the corner . |
| 8 | Sometimes you see someone painting a door or something and get that little bit done there and then they step back to make sure they have n't missed something cos they could be it could be so obvious to anyone who 's just standing , What 's he doing there he 's left a big piece in the corner there that |
| 9 | Chris trailed back , dragging his bat in disgust , but loudly clapped by his team and the little group of parents around the scorer 's shack in the corner of the field . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , there 's the lav and the 'andbasin that 's on the landin' , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ but you got your own gas ring in the corner there . |
| 11 | ‘ Quits , ’ she said cheerfully , and carried the copper kettle to the brass tap let into the front of the water tank which sat in the big iron stove alongside the kitchen fire , and ran the hot water into it before she set it not on the fire , but on a small gas ring in the corner , lighting the gas with a match from a box of Swan Vestas . |
| 12 | A young woman , an SS auxiliary in uniform , sat at a typewriter in the corner . |
| 13 | Long intrigued by the notion of this door , for instance , he elicits yet one more variation on the theme this month by placing a faux-bois door-sculpture in the corner of a room chez Mary Boone . |
| 14 | Black sat in his office staring at a spider 's web in the corner of the ceiling , Gina sat opposite uncomfortable in the silent painful atmosphere . |
| 15 | I was bending my brains to think of a way of introducing Brian Harley into the conversation when the television monitor in the corner of the tent gave me the ideal opportunity . |
| 16 | A Ficus benjamina in the corner . |
| 17 | He went to the bar in the corner of the lounge and he poured us both a stiff whisky and soda . |
| 18 | Perhaps if my father had built a formica cocktail bar in the corner of our lounge my mother would still be living with us . |
| 19 | puss in the corner , |
| 20 | We did n't have to look far before we found a hollow in the corner of a field , riddled with holes and scattered with fresh earth and droppings . |
| 21 | And as she pulled it out from between the stems the little rose-bowl motif in the corner of the envelope seemed to spring out at her , drying her mouth in trepidation . |
| 22 | We got out of the coach and walked through the gates to the stares of those gathered on the gravel , and over to a low metal hut in the corner of the compound where we were ordered to go inside and sit down in silence . |
| 23 | Gripping the child 's arm , Aggie pulled her from the room and through into a hall and there she stood waiting , for she guessed that the women lined up like felons against the wall would now be led out to pay their fines at the desk in the corner , or be taken through the door back to the cells . |
| 24 | He went through to his room and picked up the bag he had packed earlier , then went to the small desk in the corner and took a tiny notebook from the drawer . |
| 25 | Seated at his desk in the corner by the window , Eliot would switch his chair round , and the guest would be settled down opposite . |
| 26 | He looked round and saw the froth of white cotton in the corner , as pretty a cradle as any woman could want . |
| 27 | Culley would n't have been surprised to see a rat-maze in the corner . |
| 28 | Blanche retreated to her cubicle in the corner of the room , a knot of thoughtfulness still on her forehead , her movement followed by all the constables in the office who looked up from their conversations . |
| 29 | Dave do you want to take to that lady in the corner . |
| 30 | You could just put your initial in the corner . |