Example sentences of "in a corner and " in BNC.

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1 One of the things I did n't like too much was the terrific hullabaloo the women made about menstruation , the way they would sit sighing in a corner and all the other women would make a fuss over them .
2 You do n't want to put him in a corner and have him as an enemy .
3 At the first sign of activity on the ground floor , he pulled off his jacket and socks , hid them in a corner and positioned himself at the bedroom door , ready to make a dash for the kitchen .
4 She spotted Sam in a corner and hurried over .
5 Balmoral 's is particularly homely , with a fishing-rod in a corner and a tea-tray in waiting , complete with almond cake .
6 They found a wooden bench seat in a corner and squeezed into it with their drinks — Edward had a pint of bitter and Sally a Babycham in a pretty glass decorated with a dancing fawn in a blue neck-bow .
7 The horse under me got upset and started bucking , and there were suddenly sheep everywhere , but he calmly rounded them up , put them in a corner and sat watching them . ’
8 There she was , sitting forlornly in a corner and , unlike all the other dogs , making no noise , just gazing at the floor in a philosophical way .
9 Having settled Rachel in a corner and piled our luggage round her and left you , Mig , on guard , I struggled back against the refugees and climbed the gangway again to find Tim looking a little bewildered in the midst of a seething mass of humanity but remarkably calm , and soon we were back on the small boat .
10 And they stood in a corner and drank them , and exchanged their names , at last : she much admired the clear way with which he presented his own .
11 In its simplest use , the computer sits in a corner and each child has an individual session with relevant material ; so inevitably only a short time would normally be available .
12 I sat in a corner and the uneasiness grew .
13 We 'll hide ourselves in a corner and celebrate ! ’
14 I would pen them in a corner and the job would be over in no time .
15 ‘ Just sit in a corner and appear thoughtful .
16 All she could do was crouch in a corner and sob .
17 He opens the little door half-hidden in a corner and finds … what ?
18 On sentry duty one night , in the magazine of all places , I propped myself with my rifle on guard in a corner and somehow or other managed to let my feet out at about 30° to 35° to the vertical , and I fell asleep .
19 She felt more like hiding in a corner and never coming out .
20 When I get on that plane , I 'll just sit myself in a corner and concentrate on what I have to do .
21 But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing .
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