Example sentences of "the corner of my " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Summat 's moving on the floor and I sort of watch it out the corner of my eye . |
| 3 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 4 | Looking hard at the castle , sketchbook in hand , I allowed the corner of my eye to rove the tinker camp . |
| 5 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw the young man join Pavic 's queue . |
| 6 | From the corner of my eye I see Walter return and realise with a start that the person accompanying him enswathed in a black bournous is Marianne . |
| 7 | You will have heard the phrase ‘ I could see it out of the corner of my eye ’ . |
| 8 | Watching the pinches of flake sink out of sight into the roots I only see the rod-tip curve over out of the corner of my eye . |
| 9 | I heard the word ‘ Engländer ’ and saw from the corner of my eye that they were looking at me . |
| 10 | A figure walking along the path on the outside of the wire came into the corner of my vision . |
| 11 | I could see him out of the corner of my eye and I thought , I 'm going to stick with him . |
| 12 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 13 | I saw her before she saw me , and watched her out of the corner of my eye . |
| 14 | I would have loved to touch them to see what they felt like but I could see out of the corner of my eye that I was being watched . |
| 15 | Out of the corner of my eye , I could see Derek thinking , what 's he going to say ? |
| 16 | Not far away I caught , from the corner of my eye , the flickering movement as a ringed plover scudded and ran among the sea-pinks . |
| 17 | I affected to become social with the others but out of the corner of my mind — while I played for the others the part of a poor miner 's son who was puzzled , but delighted by the attention these lovely people paid to him — I had her under close observation … |
| 18 | So this boy is looking at the irises and I 'm doing the VAT on a multiple despatch but I 'm also looking out of the corner of my eye and thinking , ‘ You 're a Monday to Friday . ’ |
| 19 | Out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a white butterfly — but it was the white pattern on the tail of an adult , checking up on the brood . |
| 20 | He was a black penumbra in the corner of my visual field , a shadow that chased the sunlight , the very chiaroscuro of the commonplace . |
| 21 | I looked at him out of the corner of my eye . |
| 22 | I had barely time to recognise the shaven and scarred head emerging from the heap of Bibles and screwed-up paper , when a quick movement caught the corner of my eye . |
| 23 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw Natalie stand up , salute and begin to silently mouth the words of the Promise ! |
| 24 | As he looked me up and down I examined him in turn from the corner of my eye . |
| 25 | Rodriguez was still struggling and out of the corner of my eye I could see the patron watching us uneasily . |
| 26 | As we were talking , out of the corner of my eye I could see Balvinder Singh stumbling back from the cooking-corner of the tent , holding a plate piled high with hot pakoras . |
| 27 | We lie together beneath the crumpled warm sheet , and a tear trickles from the corner of my eye as if Jancey was dead . |
| 28 | from the corner of my eye I can see his partner , tangled with his chair in the dirt behind the portacabin . |
| 29 | Behind me his body began to beat against the stern of the boat , and as I turned toward him I saw Rachel from the corner of my eye begin to clamber up from her seat and I called out to her to stay sitting and not to stand but she laughed lightly and tossed back her head and I felt Casey behind me clambering into the boat . |
| 30 | ‘ I glimpsed you out of the corner of my eye when I was talking to the porter . ’ |