Example sentences of "from the corner of my eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I heard the word ‘ Engländer ’ and saw from the corner of my eye that they were looking at me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As he looked me up and down I examined him in turn from the corner of my eye . |
| 5 | We lie together beneath the crumpled warm sheet , and a tear trickles from the corner of my eye as if Jancey was dead . |
| 6 | from the corner of my eye I can see his partner , tangled with his chair in the dirt behind the portacabin . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | From the corner of my eye I saw Nigger retreat a couple of paw lengths , perhaps to get a better run at me . |
| 9 | From the corner of my eye I saw little Gino make his way over to the restaurant 's background music system . |
| 10 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |