Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two Frenchmen in the corner with shifty eyes and scarred faces who looked away when I stared at them , and a friendly Scandinavian with a tan and fine blond hair who shook my hand and said , ‘ France fucking shit , yes ? ’ |
| 2 | We literally started building the cars in the corner of the workshop . ’ |
| 3 | Afterwards , I sat on his lap while he drank some of that funny-smelling liquid and stared at the moving pictures in the corner . |
| 4 | We 're all safe here , and no one is going to hurt you … least of all these gentlemen in the corner . ’ |
| 5 | She bustled around , chucking her tights in the corner and putting on old ballet leggings and socks with holes in to keep warm . |
| 6 | The old woman was crouched like a bundle of rags in the corner of the hut and Simon was standing in the open doorway . |
| 7 | A heap of rags in the corner suddenly stirred and came to life and Taplow , loaded with chains , got to his feet . |
| 8 | She ejected the clip and threw it amongst a pile of discarded wooden crates in the corner of the shed , then buried the rifle under a mound of rubble in the pockmarked skip . |
| 9 | It was well for Breeze that all the holidays she had spent in St Petrock 's had accustomed her to invalids — but even so , she had never seen anybody who looked as ill as the old , old man who lay propped up on cushions in the corner facing the engine . |
| 10 | The old building , we proposed , should be adapted to create a mixture of shopping and fast food establishments , with restaurants and pubs in the corner pavilions on the river . |
| 11 | He 'll just say prayers in the corner , you know ! |
| 12 | He tried out a badly scratched recording of Dame Nellie Melba singing an operatic aria from Pagliacci which he had found tucked away between a box of rusting tools and a sack of potatoes in the corner of his shed . |
| 13 | Thus Old Den left the scene of his many triumphs on the shoulders of his son and his friends , leaving behind him on the bar fond memories of countless great nights of debates , discussion and song , echoed now in the keening of the women from their seats in the corner . |
| 14 | Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets |
| 15 | . Old clothes and china , any old things , an accumulation of valuables and rubbish crowded out … bundles of dried herbs , … sweets and apples … books on shelves , clothes hanging from pegs and armour and swords in the corner , even the table was littered leaving just enough room to eat … |
| 16 | Having had no luck with the girls , Curtius finally noticed Jitters in the corner . |
| 17 | I would have loved to have stayed in her Boathouse despite the eight inch snail with head and horns buried in a roll of butter in the larder in the morning and his relatives ‘ who had a provoking way of paying nocturnal visits , and wandered between the wooden walls and the loosely fixed paper that decked the walls … ’ ; the family of mice and the ‘ sagacious hen ’ that laid her eggs in the corner of the hole in the wall designated as a cupboard . |
| 18 | There were one or two figures in the corner who were hopelessly drunk . |
| 19 | To do this , apply some wood glue to the faces to be joined and , using the mitre clamp to hold the two pieces of moulding exactly at right angles , drill guide holes in the corner of the mitre and hammer home some pins to secure the joint while the glue sets . |
| 20 | The noise in the taproom stilled for a moment , even the farmers in the corner drunkenly arguing about the price of wheat ; two harridans from the town shrieking at each other over an upturned barrel ; and a group of young bloods , garishly dressed in costly silks , noisily roistering before a night out on the town . |
| 21 | Do n't make the mistake of thinking that any changes must be major ones , on a smaller scale it 's amazing what a few new accessories will achieve — paintings and prints , plants , perhaps a new round table with a floor-length cloth on it , a small but eye-catching rug , some concealed uplights in the corner ( see pages 37 and 39 ) . |
| 22 | The kids slept after that , on some sacks in the corner . ’ |
| 23 | There was no light in the drawing-room except that from the fire , which was burning brightly and leaving deep shadows in the corner of the room . |
| 24 | It had n't reached the zenith of its arc before a black shape detached itself from the shadows in the corner of the room and swooped down , taking the morsel in mid-air . |
| 25 | Those hyacinths in the corner are taking a long time to come out , are n't they ? |
| 26 | No , it is n't , it 's the gremlins in the corner over there , it 's alright |
| 27 | The walls were hung with furs and there were piles of deer skins in the corner . |
| 28 | They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee . |
| 29 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 30 | All except the bits in the corner . |