Example sentences of "from the [adj] corner [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I swept the pock-marked linoleum , and then washed it , working from the far corner under the bed right round the angle to the door , backing along on my knees . |
| 2 | For example , if the figure was a line diagram of a room with four windows set at different heights , the programme would ask me whether a line of sight from the far corner of the room would enable me to see a particular point outside the window nearest to me , a point that shifted on the screen at speed . |
| 3 | McMinn had his best chance of the second half for Dungannon when a great shot from the right-hand corner of the box went narrowly wide . |
| 4 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 5 | Blend and smudge the darker colours under the bottom lashes from the outer corner to the middle of the eye . |
| 6 | This gate must have been a conspicuous structure , since its footings project some 8 metres from the eastern corner of the temple . |
| 7 | Draw the shadow pencil all the way under the lower lashes , from the inner corner to outer edge and just onto the upper lid . |
| 8 | From here , along with many other tributaries from the north-eastern corner of the Ochil Hills , the waters thrust into the Earn and thence , between Rhynd and Newburgh , into the slower-moving waters of the Tay to merge and circulate , ever-so-slowly , in the world sea . |
| 9 | After the Russians , these were the second most numerous ethnic group to be ruled from St Petersburg and occupied an area which , apart from the north-eastern corner of the Habsburg Empire , included the three southernmost of Russia 's nine western provinces and an equally large region on the left or eastern bank of the river Dnieper . |
| 10 | In the Howk , an eerie limestone gorge reached by a pleasant few minutes ' walk from the southern corner of the village green , is the threadbare ruin of a bobbin mill . |
| 11 | ‘ Thank you , General , ’ said the Doctor , returning from the quiet corner of the camp where he had been working . |
| 12 | In a volte-face that makes Germaine Greer 's change of heart look like a tiny emotional trifle , the former feminists ' champion has switched from the red corner to the blue corner without a blush in the process . |