Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shed was of wood , a compact , dark , creosoted building tucked into the corner of the shrubbery . |
| 2 | In the yard next to ours was a tiny cottage squeezed in the corner . |
| 3 | Her measuring glance moved to the corner of his mouth , where the line of his lips was prolonged in a short red scar , and then to his cheek-bone , which bore a suggestive blue stain . |
| 4 | Turning the eye reveals a different view through the cubic grid ; the three point geometry is based upon a pyramid sliced from the corner of a cube . |
| 5 | The rainbow mobile cast into the corner |
| 6 | The sun bled into the corner of his eye |
| 7 | She ducked into the cubicle , hardly conscious of the cameraman tucked into the corner . |
| 8 | Motionless on his stool , Frankie stared first at Buddie 's dark profile , then at the huge brown and black body curled in the corner . |
| 9 | She was addressing a massive and gaudy macaw perched in the corner , side-facing her suspiciously . |
| 10 | The patron moved to the corner of the bar , clear of everyone 's earshot , and began drying glasses . |
| 11 | Although the moon had set , they could see Maldita 's ghostly white body slumped in the corner like a cast-off shroud . |
| 12 | The men sheltered under a tarpaulin slung across the corner of the barge . |
| 13 | But yes , there was his name written in the corner . |
| 14 | The organisation housed on the corner of Old Broad Street and Throgmorton Street has mercifully reverted to a name which accurately describes where it is and what it does . |
| 15 | A tattered brown tarpaulin bundled in the corner of the shed ? |
| 16 | A short time later , on the other side , she came to a noticeboard set at the corner of a road which left the main highway . |
| 17 | A smaller bitmap can be tiled , as this is , or you could have a small object placed in the corner or centred . |
| 18 | Oscar was crouched over his wheel , his dead cigarette hung from the corner of his thin mouth . |
| 19 | The face was weatherbeaten and a small cigarette hung in the corner of the mouth . |
| 20 | I never saw the mail robber , though Tom played with his children — and caught nits from them , to Nonni 's horror — and I got to know his sister , Elsie : a thin woman with stiff , blonde hair who was never without a cigarette stuck to the corner of her mouth . |
| 21 | A squashed hand-rolled cigarette dangled from the corner of his mouth . |
| 22 | She pointed to the figure of a man propped in the corner , and the cylinders of oxygen in the back pack lying beside it . |
| 23 | Charity looked with disapproval at the solid wireless set in the corner of Mona 's otherwise Edwardian sitting-room . |
| 24 | Then she saw a wrought-iron gate set in the corner , and hurried towards it . |
| 25 | Position the sarcophagus lid on to the base , so that it is open at an angle — use a cocktail stick inserted into the corner to help secure the lid if necessary . |
| 26 | Ah well there 's a caravan parked round the corner . |
| 27 | " We are planning to have a Victorian summerhouse built in the corner so the tiles will then be inside it . " |
| 28 | We had gone round the other arm of the terrace , into the shadow cast by the corner of the bedroom wall . |
| 29 | The first she knew of the assault was a motion glimpsed from the corner of her eye : a blurred form approaching her at speed through the thickening sleet . |
| 30 | In each place a crowd of men in blue overalls , each with a Gauloise stuck in the corner of his mouth , stared into the mirror behind the bar at the reflection of any women who braved their domain . |