Example sentences of "the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moustaches shall not extend below the vermilion border of the upper lip or the corners of the mouth and may not extend to the side more than one-quarter inch beyond the corners of the mouth … |
| 2 | Moustaches shall not extend below the vermilion border of the upper lip or the corners of the mouth and may not extend to the side more than one-quarter inch beyond the corners of the mouth … |
| 3 | Through all the turnings of his thoughts one image dogged him — Colberg 's face , so sharply carved , his eyes a wee bit slanting at the corners , his nostrils cut on a long shallow curve , his forehead not rounded but angled above the glossy black hairs at the outside ends of his eyebrows . |
| 4 | Tilt the say and slice away the corners . |
| 5 | To make the structure more rigid cut and fix four angled poles into the corners as shown to act as braces |
| 6 | He pictures eternity as a filthy Russian bathhouse with spiders in the corners , and yet he blows his brains out to send himself there . |
| 7 | The odd policy to put the stage in the middle of the room rather than at one end leads to a diminishing of the atmosphere ( the corners are seldom filled ) . |
| 8 | He seemed to be having difficulty in controlling the muscles which worked in his forehead and at the corners of his mouth . |
| 9 | The corners of his mouth were dragged down and his plump cheeks looked shrunken , like withered apples . |
| 10 | This time his 38-year-old legs were not quick enough to cut off the corners and trap his quarry for even the slightest roughing-up . |
| 11 | The scene , without the players , is the same today as you enter the low walled garden with its four pleasing square summer-houses at the corners and its grand sweeping steps leading up Swangrove is its exotic and inimitable rendering of the local Cotswold style . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you 've got it now , ’ he said crudely , and watched with fascination as the corners of her mouth tucked in smugly . |
| 13 | His Dad found the certificate and pinned it on the board , levelling the pins in the corners . |
| 14 | She blinked and touched the corners of her eyes . |
| 15 | A delay timer , variable between zero and 180 seconds , holds the elevator at the end of the slew , allowing the corners of the store to be filled evenly . |
| 16 | With her little finger she flicked melted lipstick from the corners of her mouth , then dabbed at her nose and cheeks with a small powder-puff . |
| 17 | It pulls up and rounds out the corners of its mouth , and chomps its teeth together rapidly in an obsequious manner , as if it is saying : ‘ Do n't hurt me , I 'm only a baby ! ’ |
| 18 | Its top lip begins to extend and grow like some sort of elephant-horse , and the corners of its mouth pull up higher and higher so that its mouth looks longer and longer , as if a heavy-handed rider is pulling mercilessly at it . |
| 19 | The tendons to the corners of the mouth may stand out clearly like lengths of string , and the facial muscles will become more and more obvious as they tauten and contract in the normal flat plains of the horse 's head . |
| 20 | Carefully , Mrs Browning dabbed at the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief . |
| 21 | The introduction of short radius curves can soften the corners . |
| 22 | The corners of any regular polygon rest on the circumference of a circumscribing circle . |
| 23 | Arrows occur at the corners of polygons and tend to make the sides seem concave . |
| 24 | The corners of an octahedron can be located by erecting a perpendicular , height equal to half the side length , on the midpoint of each face of a cube . |
| 25 | If the corners are pinjointed hinges , the sides become parabolic . |
| 26 | In the case of the square , a perimeter of constant length must pull the corners inwards , as the sides flex outwards . |
| 27 | If the corners are fixed and immoveable , then the square will appear to maintain its rigid shape until it bursts . |
| 28 | Endotropic treatment , a favourite painter 's device , loses the corners of a rectangle and emphasises the centre . |
| 29 | Pots of roses decorated the corners of the yard . |
| 30 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |