Example sentences of "around the corner [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had sprinted over the drive and was halfway across the stone-flagged terrace when a figure appeared around the corner of the house . |
| 32 | Around the corner of the building he saw a figure on a bike speeding away . |
| 33 | Just around the corner to the right and then first right and — ‘ |
| 34 | ‘ We were fooling around … then we drove right around the corner to my hotel room . |
| 35 | But as they came around the corner to the front of the house , they heard a familiar reedy voice hail them and , turning , found themselves confronted by Miss Merchiston herself , her pale eyes going from one to the other with the air of one who had known how it would be . |
| 36 | And all they wanted it to do was to go around the corner to Marygate for the winter and then we s got the same in the spring to bring it back , but by that time the python was a lot bigger . |
| 37 | ‘ Money buys you certain things , but it ca n't buy you the simple pleasures in life like going around the corner into a bar and having a drink , ’ he says |
| 38 | At the next intersection he drew in against the left-hand wall , peering around the corner into the corridor to his left . |
| 39 | To help cover the import bills Miles would take half the orders around the corner into Soho where at a higher price the proprietor of a dirty book shop would retail them to less artistically minded purchasers . |
| 40 | She scurried around the corner into Barley Hill , but by the time she reached number 52 her hair was glistening with raindrops . |
| 41 | The man hurried on , throwing the leaflet in a waste-paper bin as soon as he was around the corner by the newspaper stand . |
| 42 | She became a familiar figure at some of London 's top stores , particularly in Kensington High Street , around the corner from the luxury £400,000 Holland Park Flat she shared with her Neighbours/PWL stablemate Jason Donovan . |
| 43 | By this time it was severed just around the corner from Staveley Town South Junction . |
| 44 | Just around the corner from Sion House they found a narrow five-story terraced house built in the 1840s but impeccably Georgian in every other respect . |
| 45 | Around the corner from the flat was a roaring famous bar and house of fights and dope called the Nashville . |
| 46 | UNLESS you live in their village , town or just around the corner from one , it is unlikely you have ever heard of the six people on this page . |
| 47 | We stayed at Makerstoun from 1966 to 1978 and then , while keeping Makerstoun for weekends , bought a property in Edinburgh ; a neat terraced Regency house in Upper Dean Terrace on the Water of Leith , just around the corner from Raeburn 's lovely Ann Street and a few hundred yards downstream from the house in Belgrave Crescent where I was born . |
| 48 | After examining the photographs , Mr Hayden recognised William Terris who had been murdered in about 1900 in The Strand which lies just around the corner from Covent-Garden Underground Station . |
| 49 | Wagamama is around the corner from the British Museum , through a discreet glass door , past a sand-filled ashtray and down some stairs to a big white basement with a shiny open kitchen at one end . |
| 50 | And after their lengthy and intimate chat , he confided in a naval colleague that ‘ at the earliest opportunity ’ he would visit Janet 's shop in Beauchamp Place around the corner from Harrods . |
| 51 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 52 | But what about Redbridge RFC around the corner from me in East London . |
| 53 | Discs Mansions is the epitome of new business gentility , tucked away in a sweet little Victorian cottage mews in Hammersmith , just around the corner from Island Records — which is probably no coincidence , as we 'll find out later . |
| 54 | Paszti-Bott , a small storefront on An der Linde 25 , sits in interesting isolation just behind the train station and around the corner from the Musikhochschule . |
| 55 | A move across cultures for lunch at China Jazz , 29 Parkway , NW1 ( 01–482 3940 ) just around the corner from Camden Market , an ocean liner of a place with a cool Thirties feel ; all bright steel , pale wood and black granite , overseen by punky waiters in designer bow-ties . |
| 56 | ‘ We 've passed five places selling coffee and pastries already , including the one just around the corner from your flat . ’ |
| 57 | Just around the corner from Wimpey 's headquarters in Hammersmith , London & South East region has successfully combined old with new in a £ project to build a new science block and refurbish existing facilities at the Sacred Heart School . |
| 58 | ‘ There 's a post office around the corner from where I live , and every Thursday morning the pensioners start queuing outside from about half-past eight , whatever the weather . |
| 59 | But an architect friend offered me premises in Portland Mews , funnily enough just around the corner from our new gallery . |
| 60 | The jobless total has risen by forty four percent in a year : just around the corner from grail engineering evidence of firms which have n't made it through the recession , and empty industrial units where firms have yet to try . |