Example sentences of "in the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there , on the third step , upside down in the corner by the wall , was Bunty 's other sandal — dainty lacy white straps with the arched instep and the two-inch heel hanging half off . |
| 2 | At last people were going to see the real Dorothy , the real live woman behind that starchy old madam who 'd sat in the corner for all those years , hiding from the world in general . |
| 3 | Young Donald leaned his long-barrelled small-shot gun in the corner by the door and then his face darkened over . |
| 4 | The plural is required for this multi-talented worker : his ground-floor music-room included a chair , a not over-expensive hi-fi unit with a modest collection of cassette tapes and a synthesiser ; in the corner stands one of his guitars . |
| 5 | Keep in the corner crack , passing a ledge , all the way to the top . |
| 6 | The wall was relenting now , there was another continuous crack in the corner . |
| 7 | ‘ There he is , Sir , in the corner of the field , close to the hedgerow . ’ |
| 8 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 9 | The corporate communiqué can be set out on anything from regulation A4 paper with a staple in the corner , to grandiose box presentations containing ‘ sampler ’ cassettes or compact discs previewing the alleged highlights of a forthcoming release . |
| 10 | The dealer got more and more paranoid sitting there , noticing these two guys in the corner who kept looking at a bit of paper then at him , then having a bit of a conflab . |
| 11 | Suddenly someone bangs on the drum in the corner , and we all look up . |
| 12 | I can hardly see the things on the table in the corner . |
| 13 | It is 2215 hours , and the team room in a Detachment of 321 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company is quiet except for the steady drone of the television in the corner and the occasional outburst from the Province Incident Radio Net ( PIN ) . |
| 14 | In the corner of the room is a large bed hung with a dark musty surrounding curtain . |
| 15 | Marx was there , leaning on the door-frame , a hat rammed on the back of his head , a cigar jammed in the corner of his mouth , blinking his bloodshot eyes . |
| 16 | The feelings may be imagined of the pupil who rashly let fall a slighting reference to Sohrab and Rustum , to be answered by Lewis 's brandishing an old regimental sword of his brother 's which stood in the corner of his room and shouting , ‘ The sword must settle this ! ’ |
| 17 | It might have been the blazing fire in the corner of this very upmarket restaurant . |
| 18 | But Dzagnidze then followed his own kick for a try in the corner , and Mironov swept through for a try that Dzagnidze converted . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's like a shopfront with a little bit of dust in the corner . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 21 | Tourist backpackers chattering in high tones ; theatre-/supper-goers gazing nervously at the cluster of dishevelled , ruby-faced lads who wave their cans and bawl out the rallying cry of ‘ 'Ere we go , ‘ ere we go ! ’ at alarming volume ; a comatose figure lying on the bucket seats and crying out an important but indecipherable message about some quite obvious connection betwixt Jesus and Aids ; in the corner a girl with dishevelled hair and a soiled James Dean T-shirt sprawled on the concrete and a man with bloodied chin mouthing profanities as he urinates against the wall . |
| 22 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 23 | Philip kept his eyes on the fish tank in the corner of the living-room . |
| 24 | She bustled around , chucking her tights in the corner and putting on old ballet leggings and socks with holes in to keep warm . |
| 25 | One man was whimpering in the corner and two others were playing a bizarre version of dominoes , in which none of the numbers matched . |
| 26 | She went over to the big , old , white sink in the corner and Joe fetched out the hoe and vanished towards the vegetable field . |
| 27 | With their two paper carriers on the shelf , the scrappet of carpet on the concrete floor , and the gas fire in the corner it was almost beginning to feel like home . |
| 28 | The violet-patterned handkerchief had some writing in the corner . |
| 29 | His mother had done them — her name was in the corner . |
| 30 | In the corner was Mrs Browning 's bed . |