Example sentences of "from the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Menzies the old bon vivant had not a fraction of Atholl 's strength , he would not dare to turn them away , and if he did they would go in there with sticks and clubs and — As Cameron felt his anger rising , he swallowed it , took up his own cherrywood stick from the corner , and went hack outside . |
| 2 | She slipped her arm through mine , I picked up my rifle from the corner near to the band , who were now packing up their instruments . |
| 3 | By now he was hungry again and anxious to eat while he had the opportunity , but he dare not move from the corner until told to do so . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From the corner of her eye she saw the security guards wrestle him to the ground . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Oscar was crouched over his wheel , his dead cigarette hung from the corner of his thin mouth . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Once ! ’ called out Nessie from the corner . |
| 13 | I heard the word ‘ Engländer ’ and saw from the corner of my eye that they were looking at me . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | How do you get from the corner of 168th St. and Fifth Avenue to 184th and First ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | From the corner where she squatted on a stool , she watched Midnight quietly serving the six people sitting at the long table ; n the centre of the room and , in spite of her hunger , was impressed by the careful , unobtrusive way he worked — standing always on the left of each person , never knocking against them or even brushing the backs of their tall chairs . |
| 18 | A thread of spittle ran from the corner of his mouth and down his chin . |
| 19 | I stood the bottle on the tiled mantel and continued my chores , rewarding myself with a coffee and a stolen Woodbine in front of the newly-made fire , before fetching the groceries from the corner shop . |
| 20 | Willie recognized Mr Miller from the corner shop and the young man behind the mesh in the Post Office . |
| 21 | Jack Foley began , but then he saw the car that had been pulled away from the corner where it had crashed . |
| 22 | Work from the corner to the centre of the lips — first one side , then the other ; top then bottom . |
| 23 | The Gordon Highlanders had already left , the airmen from the corner table had hoisted kitbags to shoulders and gone their separate ways , and the soldier who had spent the entire evening writing letters called a goodnight and walked out into the darkness . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Work from the corner out on both walls , blending the plaster to the existing surface . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | From the corner of the compound the raised machine-gun and its minder watched and bided their time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A fine trickle of drool leaked from the corner of his mouth . |
| 30 | 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 . |