Example sentences of "the corner of [pos pn] eye [coord] " in BNC.

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1 It had been a mere moment of whiteness seen out of the corner of her eye but it had not moved purposefully like a horse does with a rider .
2 A single tear escaped from the corner of her eye but she made no move to look away .
3 She looked up at me out of the corner of her eye and lowered her voice .
4 She saw the shadowy movement out of the corner of her eye and she was still reaching for her Beretta when she was struck heavily on the shoulder , knocking the Geiger-Muller counter from her hand .
5 so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer .
6 I could see him out of the corner of my eye and I thought , I 'm going to stick with him .
7 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 . ’
8 Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ?
9 Blood had begun to run into the corner of his eye and he blinked to try and clear his vision .
10 But Mr Watson said that Mr Ross saw the briefcase from the corner of his eye and did not see Mr Garvey .
11 Cranston glanced at Athelstan out of the corner of his eye and smiled at the barbed reminder what was true of Fulke and others in the Tower was also true of his relationship with the Lady Maude .
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