Example sentences of "from the [adj] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I swept the pock-marked linoleum , and then washed it , working from the far corner under the bed right round the angle to the door , backing along on my knees . |
| 2 | For example , if the figure was a line diagram of a room with four windows set at different heights , the programme would ask me whether a line of sight from the far corner of the room would enable me to see a particular point outside the window nearest to me , a point that shifted on the screen at speed . |
| 3 | McMinn had his best chance of the second half for Dungannon when a great shot from the right-hand corner of the box went narrowly wide . |
| 4 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 5 | Blend and smudge the darker colours under the bottom lashes from the outer corner to the middle of the eye . |
| 6 | All traces of glue must be removed from the inside corner , and the corner angle must be checked to an accurate 90° . |
| 7 | On the half hour John Drake 's diving header took Coyle 's crisp volley off the line with Collins beaten and Mark Donnelly had a shot scrambled to safety from the resultant corner . |
| 8 | This gate must have been a conspicuous structure , since its footings project some 8 metres from the eastern corner of the temple . |
| 9 | They range in size from the small corner shop ( like the one on Coronation Street ) to huge hypermarkets like Asda and Tesco . |
| 10 | CO-OP shops take many forms — from the small corner shop to the department store or hypermarket . |
| 11 | The second rectangle , having simplified the specifying of the third , now has its smaller dimension revised to 0·5 cm from the highest corner . |
| 12 | Alternatively a Scarsten scraper can be used having first tapped away the cutter from the lower corner to avoid damage . |
| 13 | Brundle , running sixth on lap 29 , attempted to pass Alesi , but the Frenchman sharply ‘ closed the door ’ on the downward spiral from the first corner , and both cars span off . |
| 14 | Draw the shadow pencil all the way under the lower lashes , from the inner corner to outer edge and just onto the upper lid . |
| 15 | From here , along with many other tributaries from the north-eastern corner of the Ochil Hills , the waters thrust into the Earn and thence , between Rhynd and Newburgh , into the slower-moving waters of the Tay to merge and circulate , ever-so-slowly , in the world sea . |
| 16 | After the Russians , these were the second most numerous ethnic group to be ruled from St Petersburg and occupied an area which , apart from the north-eastern corner of the Habsburg Empire , included the three southernmost of Russia 's nine western provinces and an equally large region on the left or eastern bank of the river Dnieper . |
| 17 | In the Howk , an eerie limestone gorge reached by a pleasant few minutes ' walk from the southern corner of the village green , is the threadbare ruin of a bobbin mill . |
| 18 | From the resulting corner Rhodes made another fine save , hurtling to his right to deflect away Dixon 's rising shot . |
| 19 | From the resulting corner the ball fell to Goddard , whose shot appeared to be going wide of goal . |
| 20 | From the resulting corner , Alan McDonald headed past Hooper but Rob Jones , back in the Liverpool side , cleared off the line . |
| 21 | Hodge had a good header turned round the post by the keeper , and from the resulting corner the header was cleared off the line by an Ipswich defender . |
| 22 | From the resulting corner , Paul Simpson 's corner , Andy Melville flicked the ball on at the near post , Martin Foyle 's header hit the under side of the bar and bounced away . |
| 23 | And from the resulting corner , Mark Stein got his head to the ball , it flashed across the face of the Wolves goal , bounced off the crossbar and the chance had gone . |
| 24 | ‘ Thank you , General , ’ said the Doctor , returning from the quiet corner of the camp where he had been working . |
| 25 | If a tear develops , peel from the opposite corner and work towards the damage . |
| 26 | And from the next corner a couple of minutes later he repeated the dose . |
| 27 | The bus goes from the top corner . |
| 28 | In a volte-face that makes Germaine Greer 's change of heart look like a tiny emotional trifle , the former feminists ' champion has switched from the red corner to the blue corner without a blush in the process . |
| 29 | Even the first pitch , escaping left from the steep corner , demands positive commitment and the ability to confidently tackle technical wall climbing . |