Example sentences of "out [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then . |
| 2 | Wapnick is tall and long-limbed , and he uses his reach to cut the ball off early in flight and to dig it out of the corners . |
| 3 | This is handy , for we can thus spot potential danger and react rapidly to input gleaned out of the corners of our eyes . |
| 4 | Not all the Lotus problems had been solved — the car was still very light at the front and had trouble coming out of the corners — but it was certainly thoroughly competitive and Fittipaldi 's confidence was high : especially when he won going away at Jarama in Spain , with only Ickx 's Ferrari providing any real opposition . |
| 5 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 6 | Ember 's gaze slid out of the corners of his eyes . |
| 7 | She stood lighting a cigarette and looking at my mother out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 8 | And he gave me one of his really wicked looks out of the corners of his eyes . |
| 9 | She turned to face him and he saw how her skin was shivering , the self-control leaking out of the corners of her eyes , her face breaking up . |
| 10 | The same angle was conspicuous in the title story of Naipaul 's previous book , In a Free State , where a coup in a new African country was studied , as it were , out of the corner of an eye ; and it also occurs elsewhere in his work . |
| 11 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
| 12 | Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them . |
| 13 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 14 | And , out of the corner of her eye , Jinny saw that it was true . |
| 15 | She looked up at me out of the corner of her eye and lowered her voice . |
| 16 | He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye , wondering if he dare ask for water to help wash the cake down . |
| 17 | Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ? |
| 18 | Huckleberry 's tongue was protruding out of the corner of his mouth and flapping in the breeze ! |
| 19 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw the young man join Pavic 's queue . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm — ’ She looked round to see no one was in earshot , then mumbled the words quickly out of the corner of her mouth as if they were not really her responsibility : , I 'm sorry . ’ |
| 21 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw Prentice moving closer . |
| 22 | Agnes looked at Sadie out of the corner of her eye without turning round . |
| 23 | She crunched appreciatively and watched the urchin out of the corner of her eye . |
| 24 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw a man in a white coat floundering through the snow towards them , and in some intuitive way this increased her anxiety to be off . |
| 25 | She was smiling and making money and catching people out of the corner of her eye . |
| 26 | He sat on the edge of the bed with his usual cynical observations , but he kept looking out of the corner of his eye . |
| 27 | Out of the corner of his eye , he saw the girl coming towards him . |
| 28 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw Tweed glance again in the wing mirror . |
| 29 | Suddenly , out of the corner of its eye , it sees the red super-gape of a young cuckoo , in the nest of a bird of some quite different species . |
| 30 | Then she was aware of someone staring at her and looking out of the corner of her eyes she saw it was Carmella . |