He paused to interrogate a tortoiseshell kitten that was dozing in a corner of the sofa.
Instead this one is under way in a makeshift cabin under drizzly skies in a corner of Oxfordshire.
The Olympic flame burning in a corner of the stadium seemed to be the only source of heat.
And volunteers were busy in a corner of the hangar, making phone calls to get out the vote.
The gun was apparently stored in a corner of the family's mobile home.
In a corner of a Silicon Valley neighborhood of modest tract homes, robots are quietly at work generating electricity.
Cloistered in a corner of the web in 90-minute segments beginning at midnight, these debates are reaching a minuscule audience.
In a corner of the cell, in a pool of light directly under a small window, a veiled woman has just finished her prayers.
Hovey, who is lean and healthy in a Northern California yoga-and-yogurt sort of way, sat uncomfortably at a rickety desk in a corner of the room.
Obama gave his response for several minutes, then a translator in a corner of the room took over and went on for what seemed like forever.
Oberon sat on the floor in a corner of the room, trying to quiet the brokenhearted wailing of the Beastie, but not making a sound himself.
The first public step of the journey - yes, go on then, the Silk route - took place this morning in a corner of the Wales Office.
The actor-turned playwright sat through the preview alone in a corner of an off-Broadway theater and now seems to be in some gastrointestinal pain, which he admits isn't far off.
"M23 elements are concentrated in a corner of the eastern Kivu, which is next to the borders of Rwanda and Uganda, " Mr Ladsous told reporters after briefing the UN Security Council.
Situated in a corner of a lush 330-acre college campus in the New Territories and occupying three floors of the simply named Academic Building No. 1, Yau's Hong Kong institute started slowly.
Taking up residence in a corner of CES Unveiled 2013, the company's latest multi-touch prototype now measures in at 84 inches, far surpassing its 46-inch predecessor, with 100-inch versions waiting in the wings.
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United had anxious moments as they survived two penalty appeals - but their satisfaction at their night's work was evident as they celebrated with their supporters in a corner of Stamford Bridge at the final whistle.
Jammed into pastoral Santa Clara County in a corner of the San Francisco Bay Area and populated by 2.3 million people--of whom 400, 000 professionals are eligible voters--Silicon Valley is too micro to matter much even in its own state.
While Pope Emeritus Benedict lived a secluded life inside the Vatican (and plans to live an even more secluded existence in the former convent which is being prepared as his new home in a corner of the Vatican Gardens), Pope John Paul II lived a more gregarious existence, often inviting personal guests to attend his early morning mass and to share his breakfast.
Its booths are boxed in by brick walls, and the terrace is lined with Parisian style wicker chairs set in a garden in a lovely corner of the fashionable Condesa neighborhood.
An obscure group of concerned citizens gathers in a distant corner of the country and there, for the good of the nation, makes a ground-breaking proposal.
The first of these books is written by an American academic who investigated a mysterious outbreak of anthrax, a particularly lethal plague, in a remote corner of the old Soviet Union.
We haven't checked in with littleBits in quite some time and, honestly, it was a bit of a surprise to find the electronic tinker toys hiding in a quiet corner of the floor at Toy Fair this year.
On Tuesday, a woman who appeared to be Ms. Kelley, dressed in a bright pink dress, sat in a corner room of the house on the ground floor, watching the news on TV.
Chris Kolenda, whom I met on a far-flung FOB in a remote corner of Kunar Province, Afghanistan, a few miles from the Pakistan border.
There is another snoozing spot on the outside edge of the structure, and the men recently placed a thick piece of plywood in a top corner, giving the option of making a loft bed there too.
Stationed in a remote corner of Australia's Northern Territory, he paints military aircraft hangars in camouflage colours.
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We live in a time where a sneeze in one corner of the world can touch off a pandemic that infects people many thousands of miles away.
Around a dozen of Westminster's biggest figures spun to a pack of journalists in the cramped corner of a hotel conference room.
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