Example sentences of "of the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same angle was conspicuous in the title story of Naipaul 's previous book , In a Free State , where a coup in a new African country was studied , as it were , out of the corner of an eye ; and it also occurs elsewhere in his work . |
| 2 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
| 3 | Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them . |
| 4 | At least a third of the route takes the steep open wall to the left of the corner and the climb as a whole demands a wide range of climbing technique . |
| 5 | Impressively placed and considerably exposed , it hangs on the vertical right wall of the corner with a straight drop to North-West Gully , an uninterrupted 150ft ( 45m ) below . |
| 6 | I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge . |
| 7 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 8 | And , out of the corner of her eye , Jinny saw that it was true . |
| 9 | She looked up at me out of the corner of her eye and lowered her voice . |
| 10 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 11 | He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye , wondering if he dare ask for water to help wash the cake down . |
| 12 | Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ? |
| 13 | Huckleberry 's tongue was protruding out of the corner of his mouth and flapping in the breeze ! |
| 14 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw the young man join Pavic 's queue . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm — ’ She looked round to see no one was in earshot , then mumbled the words quickly out of the corner of her mouth as if they were not really her responsibility : , I 'm sorry . ’ |
| 16 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw Prentice moving closer . |
| 17 | It was the end of the contest , but not the end of the game because almost at once a poor kick out of defence by Gloucester outside-half Matthews gave Webb and Guscott the chance to give Fallon his second sight of the corner flag . |
| 18 | Agnes looked at Sadie out of the corner of her eye without turning round . |
| 19 | She crunched appreciatively and watched the urchin out of the corner of her eye . |
| 20 | Most of the corner boys were experts in their preferred weapons , the bottle , the half-brick , or the sharpened pick-axe handle . |
| 21 | Holding the tile hard against a metal vice , I hit the corner with a small hammer , knocking off the back of the corner ( about ¾in at a time ) . |
| 22 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw a man in a white coat floundering through the snow towards them , and in some intuitive way this increased her anxiety to be off . |
| 23 | She was smiling and making money and catching people out of the corner of her eye . |
| 24 | He sat on the edge of the bed with his usual cynical observations , but he kept looking out of the corner of his eye . |
| 25 | Out of the corner of his eye , he saw the girl coming towards him . |
| 26 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw Tweed glance again in the wing mirror . |
| 27 | Suddenly , out of the corner of its eye , it sees the red super-gape of a young cuckoo , in the nest of a bird of some quite different species . |
| 28 | Then she was aware of someone staring at her and looking out of the corner of her eyes she saw it was Carmella . |
| 29 | You will have heard the phrase ‘ I could see it out of the corner of my eye ’ . |
| 30 | Watching the pinches of flake sink out of sight into the roots I only see the rod-tip curve over out of the corner of my eye . |