Example sentences of "in [det] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each room , bounce on your heels in each corner and in the centre . |
| 2 | With a loving wife safely ensconced in each corner of the building , a fact unknown to any save himself and his faithful servant Robert , all seemed set fair for John Killigrew to enjoy a life of quadruple wedded bliss . |
| 3 | There were transverse seats for two in each corner , reducing the seating by four . |
| 4 | There was seating for 27 passengers in the lower saloon , with seats for three in each corner and two and one turnover seats for the rest , upholstered in UndergrounD Group style grey moquette . |
| 5 | There were full length slatted benches and maple veneer ceilings in four panels , each with an elaborate gold transfer pattern in the centre and in each corner . |
| 6 | The paper is fixed to a piece of board with masking tape all round and a staple in each corner . |
| 7 | For instance , you could arrange a garland or archway of flowers around the words , or even just a rectangular border and still create the designs in each corner . |
| 8 | The next job is to position the internal electrical appliances , with one Fluval in each corner , the Spray-bar fitted to the Fluval 3 and positioned at the top back of the aquarium , just under the covers . |
| 9 | Two wooden fences , two wire fences , and all lit as day , all covered by the watch-towers standing in each corner of the compound , and over the highest of the wooden fences he could see only the roof of the prison . |
| 10 | Mute swans showed a steady increase to total 79 with up to 12 nests , four of these bests being sited in almost strategic positions , with one in each corner just off the Layer-de-la-Haye causeway . |
| 11 | It had a guilloche border round a geometric pattern with an eight-lozenge star as the main feature with a swastika pelta in each corner . |
| 12 | Heavy gold-framed paintings of Hanover ancestors hung from a picture rail ; in each corner of the room were columns of shiny black marble topped by big dark green plants which drooped out of white marble urns . |
| 13 | This place must have stood here like this for all those years , and I imagined it retaining always this season , a pocket of perpetual spring — almost a source of spring from which the frozen bare earth in other places could be revivified , as those old maps depict in each corner a Wind holding in his bursting cheeks the force of the wind everywhere . |
| 14 | Mr White Face began a kind of twittering whistle , a finger planted in each corner of his lips . |
| 15 | The parchment was greasy and finger-stained , a six-inch square with a three-masted ship crudely drawn in the centre and a large black cross in each corner . |
| 16 | His body twitched then lay still , even as the dying hand edged towards the wallet containing a yellow piece of parchment depicting a crudely etched ship with dark crosses drawn in each corner . |
| 17 | The same sketch Sir Ralph Whitton and Mowbray had received : a crudely drawn ship in full sail and , in each corner , a small black cross . |
| 18 | There were seven springs in that corner . ’ |
| 19 | Secondary , or higher , education in that corner of Oxfordshire had enjoyed an interesting but not untypical history . |
| 20 | The trouble was , it should never have been parked in that corner in the first place , so there was n't much the owner could say , apart from making the air blue for half an hour or so . |
| 21 | Better that soldiers or policemen or civilians be murdered and maimed in that corner of the United Kingdom and millions of pounds of property be destroyed than that votes be lost in mainland constituencies . |
| 22 | I think perhaps a scatter cushion in that corner , maybe some chintz curtains ? ’ |
| 23 | in that corner there ? |
| 24 | Oh that would be good cos I was going to say normally , is er sort of up in that corner in charge of the tombola but er |
| 25 | ‘ T is darker in that corner . ’ |
| 26 | ( 194 ) He was very soon made to understand that he was not wanted in that corner of it where old Lingard and his own weak will placed him … |
| 27 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 28 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 29 | it 's not as , it 's not as , it 's not as if they 're right in that corner as you come in from , from er Farnsfield , a a a as Mike said there 's a twenty foot fe hedge there , which is going to be kept . |
| 30 | I do n't know where all over in that corner . |