Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 The steady trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth was dripping from his chin onto his coat front .
3 She could see Klift 's body from the corner of her eye .
4 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 .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 ‘ 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 … ’
7 But Mr Watson said that Mr Ross saw the briefcase from the corner of his eye and did not see Mr Garvey .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Very apologetically , she moved a dog from the corner of the sofa nearest to Aunt Tossie and reached for her cup and saucer .
12 As he looked me up and down I examined him in turn from the corner of my eye .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 The tension of the moment was broken by a groan from the corner .
16 Collimore will remain a threat from the corner he has just won .
17 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 .
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