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Example sentences of "in one corner " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	There was a television in one corner of the room .
2	The climber is centre-frame , his offending bolts invisible , but in one corner and easily legible is a mess of graffiti !
3	The only exception to this method is when you are laying quarry tiles in mortar ; then , having set out the tiles dry , you start laying in one corner of the room , using battens as guides , and work across the room in bays four or five tiles wide .
4	King 's Head , Fulham 4 Fulham High St , SW6 ( 736 1413 ) L-shaped room , part corridor , part bar , part dance-floor , with the stage in one corner , ensuring restricted view from virtually everywhere .
5	There was also , inexplicably , a mountain of Pot Noodle cartons in one corner , just next to a leaflet on the wall reading ‘ Anarchist Society — no need to join' .
6	Twenty minutes later the Sergeant was showing me my accommodation for the night : a bare cell except for a wooden bunk in one corner and two blankets .
7	In one corner of the lot was a sad , wet-rotten arch which bore the legend ‘ For Patrons Only ’ .
8	In one corner is a gas ring , in another a table with some school books on it .
9	Apart from that there was nothing to show a suspect occupancy but two crushed cardboard cases in one corner .
10	There were toys in one corner of the big bedroom .
11	The empty tin cash-box lay gaping open in one corner , twisted and crumpled as if someone had stamped on it repeatedly .
12	If he had not drawn her attention to it she would never have noticed the little glass cubicle , tucked away high up under the roof in one corner of the arcade .
13	It was made of fine lawn and had an embroidered monogram in one corner .
14	It is a very small one , with narrow , herbaceous borders against a wooden fence and a triangular rose bed in one corner .
15	In one corner was a strange life-size wooden cut-out of a black boy holding a tray .
16	The dividing wall was placed so a well established laburnum remained in one corner of their garden .
17	When in August 1988 the overstretched Health Authority belatedly sent out a questionnaire enquiring about symptoms that might have been suffered as a result of drinking the water , one went to 450 ‘ occupants ’ of a graveyard in St Tudy , which happened to have a tap in one corner .
18	On reaching the room he found a chair lying in one corner .
19	In one corner was a bed made from books and shreds of paper from old magazines .
20	A polished table was in one corner , with dining chairs askew round it .
21	The cupola turned out to be a kind of gigantic cauldron erected high in one corner of the building where she had earlier noticed what looked like volcanic lava trickling downwards .
22	It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time .
23	High up in one corner was a camera aimed at the desk .
24	Our house in Dublin would fit in one corner of it . ’
25	In one corner stood a gas-stove on which a black kettle simmered gently .
26	In one corner stood a case of stuffed fish whose glassy eyes seemed to gaze with malevolence at the newcomers .
27	There was a huge fireplace in one corner , simply crying aloud for masses of logs , and near it was an old settle .
28	Books dealing mainly with science and the occult lined the walls , bits of engineering projects littered the table , his ultra-feminine dresses hung in one corner and the printing press of the transsexual/transvestite magazine he edited was in the other corner .
29	In one corner is the Brass Rubbing Centre , where rubbings can be taken of the Washington brasses and arms amongst others .
30	They had to pile it deeper in one corner to make a space to spread the chillies — five lukals of fleshy scarlet pods to be dried a crackling brick-red to last throughout the year .