Example sentences of "[adj] in the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TV high in the corner was tuned to KWEX and the Spanish commentator was getting as frantic as the fighters . |
| 2 | Kelly sitting hunched in the corner of our vast mattress , with burn holes in our beautiful sheets and an overflowing ashtray beside her , looking into one of the half-dozen cigarette packets and suddenly screaming , ‘ You fucking bitch , you 've finished the goddam bloody cigarettes . ’ |
| 3 | The danger of approaching whole group work by letting children first improvise in small groups and then presenting them with an issue which you hope will give them a focus is that they remain more interested in what 's going on in their group than in the supposedly unifying issue : " Why should I be interested in the corner shop being knocked down when I never use it , and anyway we 've just been burgled ? ! " |
| 4 | ‘ Cuckoo-pint in the corner near the road has increased — eight specimens this year . |
| 5 | Are you okay in the corner Karen , enjoying the smells ? |
| 6 | The large body , relaxed and at ease , did n't look at all incongruous crouched in the corner . |
| 7 | He bought it off the town dump ! so new fridge- freezer in the cu which is now free-standing in the corner bought it from Doug |
| 8 | Another lies peacefully asleep in the corner . |
| 9 | Oliver sat alone in the corner , eating old bits of bread . |
| 10 | He stood alone in the corner of the yard feeling more than a little stupid as he stamped up and down to keep warm . |
| 11 | Lawton had just appeared in what looked like an operating theatre , standing motionless in the corner as though an actual operation was in progress and he was an unwelcome intruder . |
| 12 | Dead in the corner of the library . ’ |
| 13 | She had the paint , two cans , in scarlet and black , ready in the corner of the hall . |
| 14 | She glared at them , and at Luch silent in the corner . |
| 15 | That cocktail bar looks alright in the corner over there . |
| 16 | It was so dodgy though cos all the black kids you know and they were going no man you 're alright in the corner like being left alone |
| 17 | ‘ Police state , he calls it , ’ said Nanna Epstein with a nod in Grandad 's direction , very quiet in the corner , ‘ and they ca n't find a dwarf in a horse and cart — you 're not safe in your beds . ’ |
| 18 | One moment she was quiet in the corner of the cage and the next she was flying across to the front corner of her cage , frantic with some purpose the bars and wire mesh would never allow her to achieve . |
| 19 | Carolyn appeared to be staring at something horrible in the corner . |