Example sentences of "sit in the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 3 | It is also a pleasure for a nation of country lovers to escape from what is in danger of becoming a land of theme parks and golf courses , to a place in which the earth is actually used for growing things and where the workers have n't been reduced to the statutory rustic who sits in the corner of the saloon bar entertaining the merchant bankers . |
| 4 | Book Week sets out every year to persuade children that life is not square and sits in the corner with knobs on . |
| 5 | The television sits in the corner and leaks unsavoury glimpses of what 's really happening on to the faded carpets , and they hate it . |
| 6 | Jim says we 'll get an electric one because you do n't want a new thing sitting in there and erm it sits in the corner cos I have no room in my units for it . |
| 7 | And goes and sits in the corner . |
| 8 | Her husband only had one leg , and he used to sit in the corner all the time and wave his stick at you if he thought you were pinching anything . |
| 9 | Five guitar cases sit in the corner of the room , betraying his affection for — and expertise in producing — guitar-orientated groups . |
| 10 | ‘ They always sit in the corner . |
| 11 | The chairs now sit in the corner of a bedroom by a window , bringing a touch of Continental elegance to an otherwise very English interior . |
| 12 | Abigail lay on her side , well tucked in , the teddy bear she was too young for sitting in the corner by her feet . |
| 13 | As she walked into the Percy Bar the sight of her youngest son sitting in the corner raised Constance 's spirits . |
| 14 | But equally there 's no point sitting in the corner with a handkerchief stuffed in your mouth . |
| 15 | I attended the medical centre for my test and stood in my underpants for an hour in a shiny-clean waiting room with yellow walls and a kitten sitting in the corner . |
| 16 | A tall dark man , sitting in the corner , watched Mr Bumble while he drank . |
| 17 | It had been half sitting in the corner , now it seemed to crouch , as if ready to spring forward . |
| 18 | When he got back into the kitchen the cat , finally courageous in its search for food , was sitting in the corner . |
| 19 | I could n't see the woman sitting in the corner of the window-seat . |
| 20 | One of the rats is just sitting in the corner and I wonder if maybe it 's smart enough to be depressed . |
| 21 | In the office , after lunch , they started again , Ilse sitting in the corner taking notes . |
| 22 | Can I say also a particular thank you to the unsung heroes sitting in the corner here . |
| 23 | So I decided to take them outside for a breath of fresh air , ’ she added , turning her worried blue eyes in mute appeal to the uniformed policewoman sitting in the corner of the room . |
| 24 | A man goes in the pub , there 's a bear sitting in the corner . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll sit in the corner in your club making barbed comments to all who come within your ken . ’ |
| 26 | he 'll sit in the corner , you , you know , he 'll take the Mick out of you , you can guarantee it , I mean he 's |
| 27 | I ordered a glass of wine and sat in the corner where I could survey the whole place . |
| 28 | Maisie sat in the corner of the kitchen with one chocolate bar in her mouth , another in her right hand , another in her lap and a fourth beside her on the draining board , in case anything should happen to the other three . |
| 29 | When she had finished she sat in the corner of her bedroom and wept . |
| 30 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |