Example sentences of "[pers pn] in the corner " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'll meet ye in the corner pub . ’
2 ‘ Ye kin — I mean , ye 're fit tae meet me in the corner pub ? ’
3 He stretched and looked about him , feeling good , noticing his furs where he had left them in the corner of the room .
4 And I have cleaned round him , but you know , as quick as I pick them up and throw them in the corner , he gets them out again .
5 And then , she saw him in the corner of the dim room .
6 She moved away , left him in the corner of the room and stayed where he could see her clearly .
7 Rain trapped him in the corner by the empty water machine .
8 She arranged her armful of books on the shelf Thérèse had cleared for her in the corner above the camp-bed .
9 Moxie folded the quilt and put it in the corner where the bed had been .
10 Angrily she pulled the sheet from the bed and thrust it in the corner of the room in a tight heap .
11 After she 'd completed her delivery round of the dressing rooms , Lucy came back into the department , took off her coat and threw it in the corner , and then threw herself onto one of the available chairs with an equal lack of ceremony .
12 Go and do it in the corner , ’ said one Glasgow mother to her child , in a story that has passed into the folklore of the Second World War .
13 You 've seen it in the corner of the office .
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