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Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the corner " in BNC.

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1	And there , on the third step , upside down in the corner by the wall , was Bunty 's other sandal — dainty lacy white straps with the arched instep and the two-inch heel hanging half off .
2	Ireland were quick to respond , scrum-half Matchett breaking from a scrum to touch down in the corner .
3	Gentle accepted the wine , and sat down in the corner of the ill-sprung couch , where it was easiest to ignore the demands of the screen .
4	One is now face down in the corner , snoring on a pile of old cheese cloths .
5	Alice went up to her room , and squatted down in the corner where her bed had been , the narrow white bed she had slept in since she was ten years old .
6	Over at The Wine Cellar , Keith Meerza , the joint owner , has sat a customer down in the corner and is trying to persuade him to go to the police .
7	Sikes laid her down in the corner , as surprised as Fagin at her anger .
8	Then he went back to lie down in the corner of the cell .
9	Now right down in the corner , bearing in mind my parents ' garden shall we say is there and the field height is there
10	Sit down in the corner nice breakfast .
11	I know which it is but it 's somewhere down in the corner where your brother used to live that corner down there Harry somewhere down there .
12	So when people gather round the manger with wonder and puzzlement , I 'm over in the corner looking at the cows .
13	Over in the corner behind a gigantic desk sat this old bird who looked as though she had been there since Marie Stopes was pre-pubescent .
14	Over in the corner of the sizable room an electronic organ was giving out Moon River , the player a young , prematurely bald man , with sweat standing out on the smooth , polished face and head .
15	Then listen to the guitar of Ruth Morris , bellowing over in the corner like a love-lorn brontosaurus .
16	A fabulous movement involving Jones , Barnes , Ian Smith , Carling , Scott Gibbs and Mike Rayer finished with Hunter scorching over in the corner .
17	And , four minutes later , Ropati 's Test colleague , pacy prop George Mann , brushed aside a couple of tackles to put Gary Connolly over in the corner .
18	Maldon were met with stiffer resistance in the second half and did not score for 20 minutes , until scrum-half Willcocks dived over in the corner .
19	Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor .
20	Over in the corner , by the window , was an elderly man with a white beard , wearing what looked like a cut-down fez .
21	‘ That 's it , stood over in the corner . ’
22	DS Shaw 's computer , over in the corner , blank-faced and brooding , was being well fed on a mixed diet .
23	‘ If you look over in the corner , there 's a little ante-room with a single bed — intended , so I believe , to accommodate a child . ’
24	The match had a thrilling finale when , with Kendal leading 13–7 and only seconds to go , Greg Young went over in the corner and Andy Craggs kicked the conversion to share the honours .
25	Labit and Sebastian Morizot were backing up and , when the sortie was checked , the ball was flipped out to Laurent Arbo who went over in the corner .
26	Well over there there 's a , there 's a er , antirrhinum growing right over in the corner there , at the back .
27	Stick it over in the corner .
28	This bloke is propped up in the corner of the cab , and blood all over the place .
29	A police photographer was just finishing up in the corner of the room where Doyle had fallen .
30	How they did n't see me , I 'll never know , 'cos I was just huddled up in the corner of the alley .