Example sentences of "in the corner of [pos pn] eye " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When he burst out against some restriction , delay , inaccuracy or bureaucratic procedure that was choking him , Laura sat with her hands neatly folded staring straight in front of her , a controlled tear welling in the corner of her eye , but never even near to a response . |
| 2 | In the corner of her eye she saw Maurin stir , looking up and gauging whether Durance 's rage was abated . |
| 3 | She caught a movement in the corner of her eye , and looked up . |
| 4 | It was that kind of country , somehow , safe things looked dangerous , specially in the corner of your eye . |
| 5 | and just fell over and I just saw this thing in the corner of my eye |
| 6 | Iain did n't notice her for a while , but eventually it dawned on him that the blur in the corner of his eye was n't just a blob of grease on his eyelash . |
| 7 | He would get depressed and sometimes you could see a tear in the corner of his eye . |
| 8 | And in the corner of his eye — an anxious blue blur was all that she amounted to — this Soviet woman he was deliberately ignoring . |
| 9 | He had n't seen an image in the corner of his eye , belatedly realised who it could be , and was making his way back on foot to investigate ? |