Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Ordovician of my corner of the world , the most remarkable example of persistence of facies is that of the purple and white quartzites in the lower part of the System . |
| 2 | Perhaps the Greeks are emerging from the long , mesmerising spell that history has cast upon them ; perhaps they are coming out of their corner . |
| 3 | He hated it especially now as he dragged it out of its corner in the garage , squeezed it between his Vauxhall Viva estate car and the twins ' tricycles , and rolled it on to the uneven surface in front of the garage doors . |
| 4 | Also , in one of its corner squares , mosaic C shows the remains of a floral device which is not , stylistically , comparable with those placed in a similar position in mosaic B. The differences between the motifs in the central squares of both these mosaics has been covered above ( section 2.2. pp.30-31 ) and , clearly , is not unimportant . |
| 5 | She would stay there until Marion and her attendants left for the evening meal in the hall , then come out of her corner , stretch to ease the cramp in her legs , and check the baby again before slipping away out . |
| 6 | Inevitably this proximity involved a fair amount of touching and occasional pressures , which the man found very much to his taste , and which the young woman at least did not object to sufficiently to draw away to the limits of her corner . |
| 7 | She managed to edge herself out of her corner , away from Ivan , back into the current . |
| 8 | But trainer Francois Boutin came out of his corner in fighting mood . |
| 9 | Nor to that of Wally Swift Jun. whose father , a former British welterweight and middleweight boxing champion , would meticulously plan and implement training programmes at Birmingham City ABC and insist on taking charge of his corner in competitions . |
| 10 | Obviously there are no simple solutions to a difficult relationship with a demanding parent , but it can often be kept ticking over on a mixture of kindness and firmness and a refusal on your part to come out of your corner for a fight every time she chooses to ring the bell . |
| 11 | As the train trundled out of Paris , Constance snuggled into her corner feeling almost ridiculously happy , proud and capable . |
| 12 | The car was so big that when she leaned back into her corner there might have been a cold room between them . |
| 13 | Nicandra shrank into her corner of the sofa . |
| 14 | She gulped down the Martini offered to her and sat down on the sofa by Penelope , who edged away into her corner , recognising in Robina Fairfax 's shapeless grey woollen dress and strings of painted wooden beads the kind of woman she sometimes met at her landlady 's ‘ evenings ’ . |
| 15 | She withdrew immediately , retreating into her corner of the bench , her face expressionless but for the suspicious sidelong glance she sent him . |
| 16 | She pressed herself into her corner of the sofa . |
| 17 | A detailed examination of the linen , the small pillow with its corner tassels and broderie anglaise hem and the wrap-over sheet with similar trimmings , appear not to be bedclothes but an exceptionally superior coffin suite . |
| 18 | Then Amanda had lain on the bed and made a few suggestions which insulted his experience ; he 'd fumbled hurriedly with zips and cuff buttons , his Calvinistic conscience retreating into its corner , and then exultation was running through him like the roar of the crowd the night Jim Watt had won his title . |
| 19 | The introductions were reciprocated by Hope who gathered Mary into his corner as proprietorially as Shelborne had spoken for Catherine . |
| 20 | When the train has borne us away and we settle into our corner , have we feelings of remorse or satisfaction ? |
| 21 | But now I have him in my corner it has turned my career around . |
| 22 | Now I have him in my corner and it has turned my career around . |
| 23 | I stand rock still in my corner . |
| 24 | I stay in my corner like a boxer waiting for the bell . |
| 25 | When they had settled themselves in their corner , she showed every indication of making the conversational running : she was chirpy , sparkling — almost too much so , as if tensed up . |
| 26 | Dot sat hunched in her corner , Gloria in another , each far from the other . |
| 27 | She cringed in her corner , whining and docile . |
| 28 | In her corner of the hall , John 's wife Muriella lost some of her grin . |
| 29 | ‘ She liked to think , as she lay in her corner , that she was shut in a cage with some powerful wild animal , a tiger or a lion or a bear , who had devoured his keeper and would spring upon anyone else who opened his door , but with whom she was ‘ quite safe and conceited ’ , as she said with a chuckle . ’ |
| 30 | Rachel sits quiet in her corner , putting pieces of the jigsaw together . |