Example sentences of "[coord] in the corner [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But being a rebel at heart he always modelled the battleships on the Potemkin , and in the corner of every panel he painted a little red devil with a pitchfork and a knowing grin .
2 And in the corner of his eye — an anxious blue blur was all that she amounted to — this Soviet woman he was deliberately ignoring .
3 Each cage was about the size of a wire basket for office mail , and in the corner of every one was a pellet hopper and an inverted water bottle .
4 ( Andrew speaks of Rhodes as if he might walk through the door ; and in the corner of the living-room hangs a pencil portrait , autographed , of ‘ The Founder ’ . )
5 That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ .
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