Example sentences of "in a corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dyer thinks of himself as ‘ a stranger to mankind ’ ; his life is led apart , ‘ in a Corner ’ . |
| 2 | There are no easy chairs , save for a single wooden rocking chair ; no cushions , save for three ornamental ones in a corner . |
| 3 | She sat in a corner on an antique settle as far away as possible from the blazing open fire . |
| 4 | ‘ I was n't even told about the wedding because he was largely under pressure , in a corner d' you see . |
| 5 | Thousands of boxes of parts arrive at the assembly line every week to be emptied and then simply discarded in a corner because Dagenham is not geared to what the modern motor industry calls ‘ just-in-time ’ delivery . |
| 6 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 7 | We join all the other dancers jumping up and down , round and round the dance floor , stopping momentarily as I place my rifle in a corner near the band , then on again keeping time to the music . |
| 8 | Combining elements from his childhood reading with his reading about recent political thought and events , Eliot shows the man-child who has not evolved a cry , and so for whom ‘ the lost word is lost ’ , as trapped in a corner , paralysed for all his magnificence and that of his City . |
| 9 | One of the things I did n't like too much was the terrific hullabaloo the women made about menstruation , the way they would sit sighing in a corner and all the other women would make a fuss over them . |
| 10 | Rudd was then ‘ left in a corner ’ designing the new four-litre Lotus V8 , and also produced an outline of a turbine Le Mans car that would use a Rolls-Royce Gem engine and be built with Essex sponsorship . |
| 11 | So if you have any growing in a corner of your garden , cut some of them down now and by July there will be fresh growth for butterflies to lay their eggs on . |
| 12 | Erika tucked in a corner of Omi 's duvet . |
| 13 | You do n't want to put him in a corner and have him as an enemy . |
| 14 | By the way , I deplore the practice employed by some filling stations of having several premium unleaded pumps on the forecourt but tucking the standard and cheaper fuel , away in a corner . |
| 15 | In a corner of the London Museum of Financial History — blue-rinsed heads will remember it as the Bank of England — stands a glass case . |
| 16 | In a corner by a bridge , Zacchaeus climbs a tree |
| 17 | Occasionally she made rolled-up pancakes , and stuffed omelettes , and steak pies with lovely gravy:I have in my mind 's eye a picture of her , sitting in a corner with some child on her lap , and the usual dreamy expression on her face . |
| 18 | She was holding her audience of perhaps a dozen others in a corner of a large drawing-room overlooking the gardens of Belgrave Square . |
| 19 | We 're hiding in a corner to give our necks a rest , the logic being that if you do n't make eye contact you do n't have to bow . |
| 20 | Standing in a corner of the half-landing was an old mirror with chipped edges : a tall narrow sheet of glass that had once been pinned to the inside of a wardrobe door . |
| 21 | In a corner of Frankie 's room stood a large wooden chest whose drawers were too stiff for him to open . |
| 22 | At the first sign of activity on the ground floor , he pulled off his jacket and socks , hid them in a corner and positioned himself at the bedroom door , ready to make a dash for the kitchen . |
| 23 | Wally Watmough was the loud-mouthed fat boy who had once beaten Frankie almost senseless in a fist-fight behind the old air-raid shelter in a corner of the boys ' playground . |
| 24 | The hose was where I 'd left it last summer , not neatly stored but tangled in a corner , its untidy coils covering a rake , a batch of canes and a pair of long-handled shears . |
| 25 | She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them . |
| 26 | Visits to hotels or theatres , going on holiday or to restaurants are all difficult things to do on one 's own , and if they are undertaken , people may have to pay more or end up in a corner , marginalized and away from the main clientèle . |
| 27 | It is always easier to create in a cavern than concoct in a corner . |
| 28 | At one time , I had a few carvings in a corner , away from the meat , but no one noticed them . |
| 29 | In a corner of the car park , against a wall , a foreign-looking man exhibited clumsy oil paintings on pieces of wood and played a banjo , his hat on the ground . |
| 30 | She spotted Sam in a corner and hurried over . |