Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The renewed buzzing of a fly trapped in the corner of the pane ceased to seem quite so near . |
| 2 | In the yard next to ours was a tiny cottage squeezed in the corner . |
| 3 | She was addressing a massive and gaudy macaw perched in the corner , side-facing her suspiciously . |
| 4 | At last people were going to see the real Dorothy , the real live woman behind that starchy old madam who 'd sat in the corner for all those years , hiding from the world in general . |
| 5 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 6 | Motionless on his stool , Frankie stared first at Buddie 's dark profile , then at the huge brown and black body curled in the corner . |
| 7 | Although the moon had set , they could see Maldita 's ghostly white body slumped in the corner like a cast-off shroud . |
| 8 | But yes , there was his name written in the corner . |
| 9 | Still , we reached the end in a while , and I stood up and tugged him back until he was sitting wedged in the corner , supported by the rear and side walls . |
| 10 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 11 | " We are planning to have a Victorian summerhouse built in the corner so the tiles will then be inside it . " |
| 12 | The face was weatherbeaten and a small cigarette hung in the corner of the mouth . |
| 13 | Ruth knew he was looking at the glint of Caer Wydyr , which even at this range was difficult to focus on ; like something seen in the corner of the eye , it seemed to disappear when you turned to look . |
| 14 | Gedanken suddenly remembered the roll of rubber sheeting — the one she had seen in the corner of the laboratory . |
| 15 | Tolkein died in 1973 and is buried in the corner of a cemetry on the outskirts of Oxford . |
| 16 | There are 2 points in X. If N is 3 , then you can think of a cube , drawn in the corner of the three axes of Cartesian geometry . |
| 17 | like they 've had in the corner , he likes it does he ? |
| 18 | A tattered brown tarpaulin bundled in the corner of the shed ? |
| 19 | Billy was still slouched in the corner with his left leg stretched across the seat and his right arm around Mary 's neck . |
| 20 | When the police found him later his head was almost severed from his neck , lolled through the fractured opening in a macabre way , the dead cigarette still tucked in the corner of the dead man 's mouth . |
| 21 | She pointed to the figure of a man propped in the corner , and the cylinders of oxygen in the back pack lying beside it . |
| 22 | After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing . |
| 23 | Benches and chairs had been placed around the walls , and biscuit mattresses , still folded , were stacked in the corner nearest the stone steps . |
| 24 | King 's Jester used to be a very spooky horse and would shy at the same jump , stacked in the corner of the school , every single day and if anything was moved to a different position , he would behave as if it were about to leap out and get him . |
| 25 | A smaller bitmap can be tiled , as this is , or you could have a small object placed in the corner or centred . |
| 26 | The blades , twisted like tentacles , were then dumped in the corner of the field , near a hangar , which of course swiftly became known as the Octopus Den . |
| 27 | Charity looked with disapproval at the solid wireless set in the corner of Mona 's otherwise Edwardian sitting-room . |
| 28 | Then she saw a wrought-iron gate set in the corner , and hurried towards it . |
| 29 | The nervous little mare had seemed unaccountably quieter , and the straw was flattened in the corner . |
| 30 | In each place a crowd of men in blue overalls , each with a Gauloise stuck in the corner of his mouth , stared into the mirror behind the bar at the reflection of any women who braved their domain . |