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‘An eye may have a corner.’

[⟨det eye.nhave.v ⟨det corner.n⟩]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The long grass growing at the bottom looks sort of tentacle – y, and there are all these big logs that look like alligators out of the corner of your eye.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does? body language, sighs, stray comments? out of the corner of your eye.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Lying across the scarlet floor as I stare into the abyss, I see the walls open in and out through the corner of my eye.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

With one finger of your other hand, pull on the skin of your eye’s outside corner straight out toward your ear with your eye wide open.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

When I left for work this morning I opened the garage door and went to walk around the end of my car to the driver’s side, when I saw movement out of the corner of my eye.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He asked, turning his head as he posed the question, looking at Draco out of the corner of his eye.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He moved to Jared and took hold of his hand, when he saw movement out of the corner of his eye; he turned to see Jared looking down at their joined hands as he drew them up and kissed each of Jensen’s fingers.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

From the corner of my eye, I knew you were pointing in my direction and I didn’t want to respond because I’m know it bothers me and in case my words come forth as unpleasant (which is not what I like to do).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I watched them out of the corner of my eye.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The same trembling eyelids which soon released the first clear, salty droplet to sneak its way out of the eye’s corner and over the bridge of a delicate nose, disappearing into the cushion.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

His hand stops on its way to the doorknob, and he turns his head slightly, watching her approach out of the corner of his eye.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Out of the corner of his eye, Paris caught sight of the dead – serious expression on Achilles’ face, and his laughter died down abruptly.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Hutch saw a tear leak from the corner of Starsky’s eye.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The words fell off his lips with a grin and out of the corner of his eye Han Geng could see the other man beginning to look nervous.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Reflects Antique Gold m? a? c pro glitter and Silver Dusk iridescent / loose powder? layered on top of eye shadow on lid and swept along outer and inner corners of the eye.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Silver speck creeping across the azure sky in my eye’s furthest corner trapped I turn my head to watch as it makes its way slowly at high speed from point a to point b, although my notice of it was not the beginning and when I see it no more its journey will not have ended but when I see it no more that sad chord will strike the one I hear when my heart says if only If only I had been there before it was a speck when it was still a gleaming giant fueled for flight prepared to ingest men and women boys and girls all of them decked in anticipation or dread I don’t know different people common in their leaving If only I had known to pack a few things I could have gathered them up joined in the jostling and left too.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Just then, from the corner of my eye, I saw someone walk up to me I didn’t know who it was.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse, Out of the corner of my eye.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

When Harley was out, I saw the nurse point to her out of the corner of my eye and heard her say softly, “She’s got a hernia.”
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Queried on 2013-05-22.