Example sentences of "around the corner " in BNC.
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| 91 | ‘ Just around the corner ’ often meant at least half an hour in the car , for example ! |
| 92 | 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 . |
| 93 | ‘ We were fooling around … then we drove right around the corner to my hotel room . |
| 94 | 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 . |
| 95 | The mother was just out of sight around the corner in the kitchen making Mr Wormwood 's breakfast which always had to be two fried eggs on fried bread with three pork sausages and three strips of bacon and some fried tomatoes . |
| 96 | Trouble for the carefree couple , though , was just around the corner |
| 97 | Hot rumpy on the beach , with Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster inadvertently heralding the libidinous fury of the rock 'n' roll revolution that lay around the corner . |
| 98 | and , with the Five Nations Championship around the corner , the issue must be addressed before recrimination and bitterness degenerate into open hostility . |
| 99 | But what about Redbridge RFC around the corner from me in East London . |
| 100 | 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 . |
| 101 | Just around the corner at Fawbush a senior member of the Canadian art scene , Betty Goodwin , holds forth with paintings , sculpture and drawings . |
| 102 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said he expects to ship the follow-on to Windows 3.1 , codenamed Chicago , in 1994 but declined to say at what point in the year the upgraded system will be launched : ‘ We should debunk any notion that Chicago is around the corner , ’ Gates told an audience of developers sponsored by Microsoft — ‘ All we can say is we expect it will be in 1994 and we 'll keep people in touch on that . ’ |
| 103 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said he expects to ship the follow-on to Windows 3.1 , codenamed Chicago , in 1994 but declined to say at what point in the year the upgraded system will be launched : ‘ We should debunk any notion that Chicago is around the corner , ’ Gates told an audience of developers sponsored by Microsoft — ‘ All we can say is we expect it will be in 1994 and we 'll keep people in touch on that . ’ |
| 104 | But recovery , the OECD argues ( with a familiar ring ) , is just around the corner : it expects average growth next year to rise to 2.7% . |
| 105 | Most would have earnings more like those of the Fu family , who live just around the corner on an income that is about one-fifteenth of the Lis ' . |
| 106 | The Macedonian government was able to press its claim for recognition , which had been blocked by Greece , by threatening that war was around the corner . |
| 107 | Jack hit a few shots and when the headmaster had disappeared around the corner he strolled down to the green and dropped three or four balls into the hole ‘ just to make sure ’ . |
| 108 | I also guided her occasionally in the stock market : she shared these tips and the jaunts with her friend from around the corner , Mrs Warburton , who was also widowed . |
| 109 | It was a great advertisement for Test cricket , with the instant variety of the World Cup just around the corner . |
| 110 | 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 . |
| 111 | Preston Street with its many varied restaurants is just around the corner . |
| 112 | Setting off around the corner after negotiating the flake on Valkyrie . |
| 113 | Philpott gave her a reassuring smile , then he and Kolchinsky disappeared around the corner in search of the restaurant . |
| 114 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 115 | When Sir Eric was appointed Rector in 1985 everyone was congratulating themselves that the financial squeeze on the universities , which had lasted 15 years , was now at an end and that stable funding was just around the corner . |
| 116 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 117 | Investors are so willing to believe in recovery around the corner that they will clutch at false hopes almost indefinitely . |
| 118 | Collins ushered Patrick and Jane back out onto the street — just in time to see the car come chuffing around the corner . |
| 119 | In the early stages of the Depression he relied on optimistic statements to keep people 's spirits up — " prosperity is just around the corner " he said in 1930 — and on gaining the voluntary co-operation of business leaders in maintaining employment and wages . |
| 120 | General Westmoreland , the American commander in Vietnam , soon called for further reinforcements , claiming that peace was " just around the corner " . |