Example sentences of "[prep] every corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands , for their legs could not bear them . |
| 2 | Guards should properly refer to ‘ switching on the darks ’ , since what they call lights seem expressly designed to suck all traces of illumination out of the carriage , casting shadows into every corner . |
| 3 | Shadows fled into every corner of the poky little room as the flame flickered , shrank , a knife of burning air in the damp room . |
| 4 | Outside London might be shivering in the biting cold of a January morning , here in the foyer of the British and Cosmopolitan Insurance building centrally heated air oozed steadily from a series of concealed vents to waft summer warmth into every corner . |
| 5 | The economic crisis reached into every corner of city life . |
| 6 | Equipment was crammed into every corner . |
| 7 | Apart from the huge communities in Nairobi , Toronto and London , they have spread into every corner of the globe . |
| 8 | Do you see people 's power reaching into every corner of society ? |
| 9 | His ice-blue gaze darted into every corner of the room . |
| 10 | What happened in Middlesex eventually happened all over England , and as Midland bricks and Welsh slates — and later more unspeakable materials like asbestos and corrugated iron — flooded into every corner of provincial England , the ancient local materials that fitted their own regions so well , for they came out of their very soil , disappeared one by one . |
| 11 | Fixed in gimbals , the lamp gradually extended its radiant circle into every corner of the deckhouse . |
| 12 | Jessamy prized her privacy far too much , she could n't bear to have a pack of journalists prying into every corner of her life . |
| 13 | When she awoke , rubbing at a rather stiff neck , feeling hungry , but better than she expected , she found it was the middle of the morning and sunshine was streaming into every corner of the cottage . |
| 14 | The 450,000sq ft factory on the edge of the world famous Ballybrit racecourse — Digital sponsored the richest race in the summer festival — had an influence which permeated into every corner of life in the city . |
| 15 | Once they have a decision to work , then I would doubt very much actually they 're going to be into every corner of St Clements and East , or ignoring council estates altogether . |
| 16 | With every corner she turned things seemed to grow more tangled . |
| 17 | On our own Stock Exchange the shares of Deutsche Bank , with its tentacles in every corner of Euro-business , have doubled this year and climbed more than 10 per cent in one trading day this week . |
| 18 | Mrs Pygling sent her in to spy on Jane and she prowled about with a cordless telephone , through which she had to talk very loud , so that her cracked voice and cackling laugh could be heard in every corner of the estate . |
| 19 | Their mother had been forever running after her with a pencil box or an exercise book or a threepenny piece for church collection , and the maid had turned up a lost doll , a coin , a glove in every corner . |
| 20 | You must know your soil intimately in every corner of every field and at every stage of its structure through the seasons . |
| 21 | Gracie Fields had a tremendous faculty of projection , perhaps stemming from her old Music Hall days , and she never needed a microphone for her ringing voice ; either belting out ‘ Its the Biggest Aspidistra in the World ’ , or singing gently ‘ Sally ’ , each syllable was heard in every corner of the huge auditorium . |
| 22 | Now in every corner , wherever she looked , the ghosts of the past seemed to be congregating to mock her until she felt sure she must be going mad . |
| 23 | She got no further than the hall and Ellen 's answer could have been heard in every corner of the house : ‘ None ! ’ |
| 24 | To confirm her assertion that there are radicals and revolutionaries in every corner of contemporary social life who are campaigning to overthrow the ‘ traditional ’ moral order , Mrs Whitehouse reels off a formidable list of ‘ folk devils ’ . |
| 25 | These days , British stamps are collected in every corner of the world . |
| 26 | So the two servants slept in my room , while I lay awake all night , trembling with fear , and eyes wide open in horror , imagining ghosts in every corner . |
| 27 | They existed , too , somewhere , seeking him out in every corner , and if they ever found him they would surely drag him back to the terror from which he looked forward to escaping , finally and permanently , soon . |
| 28 | I held up the light and looked in every corner of the room . |
| 29 | The sun shone , the birds sang , and in every corner of the garden there was something interesting to look at . |
| 30 | Professor Vo Quy is greeted warmly not only in his native village but also in every corner of Vietnam , where he is hailed as the architect of Vietnam 's regreening programme and a mentor who has inspired thousands of students , colleagues and high government representatives to become conservationists . |