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Example sentences of "in [pos pn] corner " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	But now I have him in my corner it has turned my career around .
2	Now I have him in my corner and it has turned my career around .
3	I stand rock still in my corner .
4	I stay in my corner like a boxer waiting for the bell .
5	When they had settled themselves in their corner , she showed every indication of making the conversational running : she was chirpy , sparkling — almost too much so , as if tensed up .
6	Dot sat hunched in her corner , Gloria in another , each far from the other .
7	She cringed in her corner , whining and docile .
8	In her corner of the hall , John 's wife Muriella lost some of her grin .
9	‘ She liked to think , as she lay in her corner , that she was shut in a cage with some powerful wild animal , a tiger or a lion or a bear , who had devoured his keeper and would spring upon anyone else who opened his door , but with whom she was ‘ quite safe and conceited ’ , as she said with a chuckle . ’
10	Rachel sits quiet in her corner , putting pieces of the jigsaw together .
11	He gave her a look of amused speculation and she was glad to sit in her corner and leave him to get the drinks .
12	Get in her corner now !
13	Aunt Louise sat impassive , eyes closed , mind apparently far away , but the area of the ward surrounding us had become very quiet , my voice superseding with ease that of the television which , as usual , was droning away unnoticed in its corner .
14	The little mouse which had run so fast and so far would now sit still in its corner .
15	She saw the little mouse lying dead in its corner covered in dust .
16	With Microsoft in its corner and actual Windows code under its hood , Insignia would not face the problems Sun faces keeping current with Windows development .
17	With Microsoft in its corner and actual Windows code under the hood of its product , Insignia would not face the problems that Sun faces keeping up with Windows development .
18	He figures Sun only has price in its corner and claimed Apollo users , the last of the die-hard zealots opposed to Sun on religious grounds , wo n't be budged simply on price .
19	One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy .
20	The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner .
21	Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner .
22	For the rest of the round , my father took such a pasting that his father , who was in his corner , threw the towel in .
23	Ruth looked , and saw Adam had at last reacted to something ; he was crouched low in his corner , eyes set on Jake .
24	In his corner , a second pulls Ali 's shirt-tail from his trousers ; the top button remains buttoned .
25	When she went out , Matthew , who was sitting quietly in his corner , whispered to Anne , ‘ Keep a little imagination , Anne , not too much , of course , just a little . ’
26	He dreamt that he was in Fagin 's house again , and could see the old man sitting in his corner , whispering to another man .
27	In his corner Joseph found himself grappling with an overwhelming sense of bewilderment .
28	The old bear Emma had given her sat in his corner , accorded dignity , but no longer attention .
29	In his corner of the cell Gabriel , overwhelmed by the shame of prison and the nearness of the pig , clutched his knees to his chest and rocked to and fro , trying to imagine he was somewhere else .
30	So I said I did n't want to deal through somebody who was n't really gon na be fighting in our corner , and I 'd rather put a paper to their committee an and tell them where the problems were , and ask how they were gon na get round them .