Example sentences of "[vb past] in the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clustered in the corner of an airless photographic studio , five worried mothers are discussing what to give their children for dinner . |
| 2 | A notice on the wall said that it was forbidden to serve drinks to Muslims and a television set flickered in the corner . |
| 3 | They were like untrained puppies or untrained kittens ; they messed in the corner of any room ’ . |
| 4 | Proctor gathered the rebound and scored in the corner . |
| 5 | That gave Fallon the overlap and he scored in the corner . |
| 6 | I just hid in the corner until the bizzies had gone . |
| 7 | A massive , antiquated fan whirred and clattered in the corner of the office , turning on its metal stem , examining them one by one . |
| 8 | A refrigerator buzzed in the corner of the room . |
| 9 | More blood appeared in the corner of his mouth . |
| 10 | A pair of waving ginger hairs appeared in the corner of a mouth the colour of old putty . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , whether she indulged in a spot of matchmaking or not , when we got inside that barn I could n't keep my hands off you , ’ Vitor said , and a smile appeared in the corner of his mouth . |
| 12 | Thérèse lurked in the corner , kneeling , hands clasped . |
| 13 | I rattled in the corner of the great plastic sofa of a back seat . |
| 14 | The feelings may be imagined of the pupil who rashly let fall a slighting reference to Sohrab and Rustum , to be answered by Lewis 's brandishing an old regimental sword of his brother 's which stood in the corner of his room and shouting , ‘ The sword must settle this ! ’ |
| 15 | Bobby Gillespie was right when he told me , ‘ I used to go stand where all the young kids stood in the corner . |
| 16 | When Carco called to see the paintings Zborowski ran to buy a candle , stuck it into the neck of a bottle , then showed Carco into a narrow , unfurnished room where a stack of Modigliani 's canvases stood in the corner . |
| 17 | It stood in the corner of a small field , larger and more impressive than any I 'd yet seen . |
| 18 | The stool stood in the corner to the left of the window and the chair diagonally opposite it . |
| 19 | He stood in the corner of the kitchen , hanging his head and peeping through his fingers . |
| 20 | Kopyion stood in the corner of the room , away from the light . |
| 21 | I ordered a glass of wine and sat in the corner where I could survey the whole place . |
| 22 | Maisie sat in the corner of the kitchen with one chocolate bar in her mouth , another in her right hand , another in her lap and a fourth beside her on the draining board , in case anything should happen to the other three . |
| 23 | When she had finished she sat in the corner of her bedroom and wept . |
| 24 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 25 | Louise Taylor sat in the corner of the room , her legs tucked under her ; she rested her chin on her knees . |
| 26 | In 1946 , when post-war service began , the TV set sat in the corner for most of the time , as the service lasted for only about four hours a day . |
| 27 | I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education ! |
| 28 | He sat in the corner farthest from the door , a good-looking man in his fifties , with a twinkle in his eye despite three years ' captivity , recalling incidents from his Scottish childhood in amazing detail . |
| 29 | At last , when darkness had covered the city , he sat in the corner of a closed taxicab . |
| 30 | They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham . |