Example sentences of "from the corner of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From the corner of her eye she saw the security guards wrestle him to the ground . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | Oscar was crouched over his wheel , his dead cigarette hung from the corner of his thin mouth . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I heard the word ‘ Engländer ’ and saw from the corner of my eye that they were looking at me . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | How do you get from the corner of 168th St. and Fifth Avenue to 184th and First ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A thread of spittle ran from the corner of his mouth and down his chin . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | From the corner of the compound the raised machine-gun and its minder watched and bided their time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A fine trickle of drool leaked from the corner of his mouth . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There were those present who later swore that the Old Stager wiped a glistening something from the corner of one eye . |
| 21 | A single tear escaped from the corner of her eye but she made no move to look away . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | From the corner of his eye the stout grey-haired man saw the thug shift his grip on the club . |
| 26 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
| 27 | She felt a tear squeeze itself from the corner of her eye . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | His eyes grew bulbous and a small trickle of spittle crept from the corner of his mouth . |
| 30 | Grabbing the pile of cloth money-bags from the corner of the desk , he turned them upside down one by one . |