Example sentences of "in a corner [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fat Mrs Beatty entered and sat down in a corner beyond the screen . |
| 2 | Party voices came floating through the air to Marion , who stood tucked in a corner between the sideboard and the wall . |
| 3 | They pick a path through the crowded gloom inside to a low table in a corner at the far end . |
| 4 | She sat in a corner on an antique settle as far away as possible from the blazing open fire . |
| 5 | Occasionally she made rolled-up pancakes , and stuffed omelettes , and steak pies with lovely gravy:I have in my mind 's eye a picture of her , sitting in a corner with some child on her lap , and the usual dreamy expression on her face . |
| 6 | Although it was amongst the women 's glossies as promised , it was still tucked away in a corner with only its spine showing . |
| 7 | I was sitting in a corner with Ann Sheridan , just a few tables away from Bogie and Mayo . |
| 8 | Joseph O'Toole ( always among the last to leave any party ) sat in a corner with Anthony Keating talking of God . |
| 9 | Northam 's poet sat glumly in a corner with a plateful and a pint and watched with silent outrage , as was his way . |
| 10 | Northam 's elderly historian and honorary ideologue sat glumly in a corner with a plateful and a pint , and watched with silent outrage , as was his way . |
| 11 | Olympia food prices , I remembered , were too much for underpaid booksellers , so I huddled in a corner with my bagels and hard-boiled eggs from home . |
| 12 | Alina mostly took her breaks alone ; she 'd sit in a corner with a magazine , usually one of Adele 's old wildlife partworks , and be about as obtrusive as a church mouse until her time was over . |
| 13 | We took our places side by side in a corner with the bare boards of the table stretching away into the distance , " I told you you 'd get a real good meal , did n't I , Well , here it is . " |
| 14 | Oliver was in the end one , scrooged up in a corner with Murgatroyd on his lap . |
| 15 | Michael was livid that Hemmings , in the cloakrooms , seemed to be getting all the way with one of the girls while Crawford/Ingram was off in a corner with another girl — ‘ simply practising how long we could kiss ’ . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But then , ’ she continued like a child reciting a story , ‘ he became secretive and withdrawn and took to meeting in a corner with a sinister-looking fellow . ’ |
| 17 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 18 | So if you have any growing in a corner of your garden , cut some of them down now and by July there will be fresh growth for butterflies to lay their eggs on . |
| 19 | Erika tucked in a corner of Omi 's duvet . |
| 20 | In a corner of the London Museum of Financial History — blue-rinsed heads will remember it as the Bank of England — stands a glass case . |
| 21 | She was holding her audience of perhaps a dozen others in a corner of a large drawing-room overlooking the gardens of Belgrave Square . |
| 22 | Standing in a corner of the half-landing was an old mirror with chipped edges : a tall narrow sheet of glass that had once been pinned to the inside of a wardrobe door . |
| 23 | In a corner of Frankie 's room stood a large wooden chest whose drawers were too stiff for him to open . |
| 24 | Wally Watmough was the loud-mouthed fat boy who had once beaten Frankie almost senseless in a fist-fight behind the old air-raid shelter in a corner of the boys ' playground . |
| 25 | In a corner of the car park , against a wall , a foreign-looking man exhibited clumsy oil paintings on pieces of wood and played a banjo , his hat on the ground . |
| 26 | They found Ewan Beg lying in a corner of the deck , and thought him unconscious , but he was n't . |
| 27 | In the meantime , Caledonia reigns in a corner of the City of London . |
| 28 | All his efforts had failed when one day he saw a copy in his local library in a corner of discarded books . |
| 29 | In a corner of the floor stood a saucer of milk which had long since turned to an unsavoury junket embellished with blue mould . |
| 30 | It seemed a wise precaution to lunge him first , as he had not been ridden for three days , and this was accomplished in a corner of the field without either difficulties or a great deal of finesse . |