Example sentences of "[vb past] round the corner [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana waited outside the main entrance of Great Ormond Street holding a clutch of excited little hands for a good five minutes before the Wishing Well song , which pop star Boy George had specially recorded for the appeal , struck up ; and then Father Christmas , in the shape of a heavily disguised Jimmy Tarbuck , juddered round the corner on his sleigh , pulled by two little white ponies . |
| 2 | She peered round the corner of the house . |
| 3 | as if to confirm her statement , a tall powerfully built man came round the corner of the house carrying a box of potatoes . |
| 4 | He came round the corner of his desk . |
| 5 | She breathed in to say something , but her father came round the corner of the stage . |
| 6 | Then Miguel himself came round the corner of the villa , dressed in a white open-necked shirt and dark fitted trousers . |
| 7 | They could hear the sound of music coming nearer , and everyone turned as a silver band came round the corner into the main dusty street , men dressed in grey trousers and pink shirts , their instruments glistening in the morning sun . |
| 8 | He stopped to relieve himself into the roadside bushes and almost lost his balance as a car screeched round the corner in a clatter of gravel . |
| 9 | Corbett heard a savage barking and two of the great dogs pounded round the corner of the wall beneath . |
| 10 | He glanced round the corner of the altar and watched a German officer who had been hit in the side of the head slump through the curtains and out of a wooden box on to the stone floor . |
| 11 | The woman walked round the corner of the house and saw a snake consuming a large Tuscan toad . |
| 12 | Now dressed in striped cotton with sensible shoes and a cardigan , she stepped into the sunshine and walked round the corner of the house . |
| 13 | From among the lemon trees , the solitary figure watched the filmy scrap of white dress that was Shelley Cameron , until it vanished round the corner like a beautiful wood spirit . |
| 14 | lived round the corner to us |
| 15 | On the next day he took Lane with him , together with a woman detective whose services he had borrowed , and went round the corner into Queen Charlotte 's Alley to visit Sarah Fleming . |
| 16 | I waved goodbye and went round the corner to the wines and spirits . |
| 17 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 18 | She was told to sit tight while he went round the corner to the newsagent , returning with an armful of print . |
| 19 | He went round the corner of the building shining his lamp but nothing was to be seen . |
| 20 | ‘ Stead of that , she went round the corner of the stable , and she hit the corner of the barn and turned the tumbril right over , that did ! |
| 21 | He shivered ; he put the central heating on ‘ constant ’ ; he went round the corner for a bottle of whisky . |
| 22 | After a moment , she crept out of her room and looked round the corner of the landing , down the stairs . |
| 23 | Felipe strode round the corner at that precise moment and he simply exploded . |
| 24 | As they stood in the rain trying to hail a cab , Fräulein Müller and Lapointe disappeared round the corner of the gleaming facade of the Theater an der Wien . |
| 25 | It disappeared round the corner of the house . |
| 26 | No , it disappeared round the corner at fifty miles an hour , off to a dawn raid on drug smugglers . |
| 27 | He suggested they meet at a bar he knew round the corner from the Place de Grève . |
| 28 | Kicking at pine cones on the path , Mungo was halfway to the top of the slope when a slight figure appeared round the corner of the station entrance . |
| 29 | In a state of some exasperation , he was about to organize his car back to Pangbourne , when Felicity appeared round the corner of one of the make-up caravan . |
| 30 | It appeared round the corner with loud threats of speed , but the colt that it startled from among the gorse , which still flickered indistinctly in the raw afternoon , outdistanced it at a canter ( 2 ) . |