Example sentences of "from the corner [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Machine stitch 3cm in from the corner at each end .
2 Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror .
3 The door was eventually opened by a scowling man , cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth , towel around his waist , shaving soap on his face and a razor in his hand , getting ready for his night shift .
4 Turning the eye reveals a different view through the cubic grid ; the three point geometry is based upon a pyramid sliced from the corner of a cube .
5 From the corner of her eye she saw the security guards wrestle him to the ground .
6 Martha , mesmerised by her friend 's ordeal and grateful to feel the guilt of her attack on Nana ebb away in this greater crisis , watched silently from the corner of the tiny room .
7 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 .
8 Oscar was crouched over his wheel , his dead cigarette hung from the corner of his thin mouth .
9 Then , pulling herself upright , she moved across the little sitting room and to the stairs that went straight up from the corner of the room .
10 I heard the word ‘ Engländer ’ and saw from the corner of my eye that they were looking at me .
11 The window had , during the summer months , more than its fair share of flies , whilst the proprietor was never to be seen in the shop without a flat black cap on his head and cigarette end dangling from the corner of his mouth .
12 How do you get from the corner of 168th St. and Fifth Avenue to 184th and First ?
13 The chemical smells of modern tap water may stop a cat drinking from its bowl , but they are not strong enough to drive the animal back physically from the corner of the kitchen floor where the bowl is placed .
14 A thread of spittle ran from the corner of his mouth and down his chin .
15 Marshall , after two months of misery and just one goal since his restoration to the front line , nabbed the second with a perfect lob over Bryan Gunn from the corner of the penalty area .
16 That first droop from the corner of the eyes , the fading blue , the dry fold of skin , the first crêping of the neck which would show how transitory it was , this over-prized perfection .
17 From the corner of the compound the raised machine-gun and its minder watched and bided their time .
18 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 .
19 A fine trickle of drool leaked from the corner of his mouth .
20 The first she knew of the assault was a motion glimpsed from the corner of her eye : a blurred form approaching her at speed through the thickening sleet .
21 There were those present who later swore that the Old Stager wiped a glistening something from the corner of one eye .
22 A single tear escaped from the corner of her eye but she made no move to look away .
23 A scar ran from the corner of his eye to under his jawbone , and his tattooed arms rested on the desk in front of him , which was covered with mementoes of his Legion career .
24 The lungs which blow air through their vocal chords are still simple and relatively feeble , but many frogs amplify the sound of their voices with huge swelling throats or resonating sacs bulging from the corner of the jaws .
25 Our plate shows — originally back to front , as is characteristic of the process , but corrected here — a vista of Whitehall from the corner of Trafalgar Square .
26 From the corner of his eye the stout grey-haired man saw the thug shift his grip on the club .
27 He looked at her from the corner of his eye .
28 She felt a tear squeeze itself from the corner of her eye .
29 3 Number the ½cm marks from 1 to 12 along one side and 12 to 1 along the other side starting from the corner of the angle .
30 His eyes grew bulbous and a small trickle of spittle crept from the corner of his mouth .
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