Example sentences of "in its corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The little mouse which had run so fast and so far would now sit still in its corner . |
| 3 | She saw the little mouse lying dead in its corner covered in dust . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |