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

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1 Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them .
2 Out of the corner of my eye I saw the young man join Pavic 's queue .
3 You will have heard the phrase ‘ I could see it out of the corner of my eye ’ .
4 Watching the pinches of flake sink out of sight into the roots I only see the rod-tip curve over out of the corner of my eye .
5 I could see him out of the corner of my eye and I thought , I 'm going to stick with him .
6 Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies .
7 I saw her before she saw me , and watched her out of the corner of my eye .
8 I would have loved to touch them to see what they felt like but I could see out of the corner of my eye that I was being watched .
9 Out of the corner of my eye , I could see Derek thinking , what 's he going to say ?
10 So this boy is looking at the irises and I 'm doing the VAT on a multiple despatch but I 'm also looking out of the corner of my eye and thinking , ‘ You 're a Monday to Friday . ’
11 Out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a white butterfly — but it was the white pattern on the tail of an adult , checking up on the brood .
12 I looked at him out of the corner of my eye .
13 Out of the corner of my eye I saw Natalie stand up , salute and begin to silently mouth the words of the Promise !
14 Rodriguez was still struggling and out of the corner of my eye I could see the patron watching us uneasily .
15 As we were talking , out of the corner of my eye I could see Balvinder Singh stumbling back from the cooking-corner of the tent , holding a plate piled high with hot pakoras .
16 ‘ I glimpsed you out of the corner of my eye when I was talking to the porter . ’
17 Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how the prioress kept sending him frowning glances at being ignored , interspersed with coy smiles in an attempt to provoke him into some loving conspiracy about the events of the previous night .
18 I glance out of the corner of my eye towards Dixie .
19 And I make a place for myself where I can watch them both out of the corner of my eye while I read .
20 Out of the corner of my eye I saw someone running to a car then it was driven off at speed , and they did n't seem to care about the traffic
21 Nothing moved inside except out of the corner of my eye I was sure that I saw Boris winking .
22 Out of the corner of my eye I saw the Queen watching us and talking to the Director .
23 I was almost at the corner of Stuart Street when a car slowed up into the corner of my eye .
24 From the corner of my eye I see Walter return and realise with a start that the person accompanying him enswathed in a black bournous is Marianne .
25 I heard the word ‘ Engländer ’ and saw from the corner of my eye that they were looking at me .
26 Not far away I caught , from the corner of my eye , the flickering movement as a ringed plover scudded and ran among the sea-pinks .
27 As he looked me up and down I examined him in turn from the corner of my eye .
28 We lie together beneath the crumpled warm sheet , and a tear trickles from the corner of my eye as if Jancey was dead .
29 from the corner of my eye I can see his partner , tangled with his chair in the dirt behind the portacabin .
30 Behind me his body began to beat against the stern of the boat , and as I turned toward him I saw Rachel from the corner of my eye begin to clamber up from her seat and I called out to her to stay sitting and not to stand but she laughed lightly and tossed back her head and I felt Casey behind me clambering into the boat .
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