Example sentences of "around the corner " in BNC.
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| 61 | Around the corner from the flat was a roaring famous bar and house of fights and dope called the Nashville . |
| 62 | Just around the corner to the right and then first right and — ‘ |
| 63 | The size and price of Sharp 's range of pocket LCD TVs confirm what a nonsense it is to predict large panel screens to hang on the wall are ‘ just around the corner ’ . |
| 64 | Walking around the corner is a wilder area , which is enclosed by trellis made of stout poles and hung with a most bewildering variety of clematis . |
| 65 | I was a bit worried about how the string-balance would work out on this guitar , since the pickup has to be bent around the corner on the Lowden 's split-saddle channel , but everything 's fine . |
| 66 | They began a three-year love affair , but were not to marry until he had enjoyed the full fruits of the fame that was just around the corner . |
| 67 | But just around the corner , Death was lying in wait for Dustin once again . |
| 68 | In this case , chose an appropriate combination of lines to finish with , so the design continues around the corner . |
| 69 | Most of the main roads are in good condition , but driving can be very tiring as there are many bends , and most of the roads are built onto the mountainside with deep ravines dropping away below , and you never quite know what 's around the corner — be it a bus straddling the centre of the road to take a corner or a group of children playing football in the road . |
| 70 | If the Doors comparisons are to be believed — which they are not — success is only around the corner if the amount of hype for Oliver Stone 's movie is anything to go by . |
| 71 | Old ladies trapped in time imagine they are in 1929 and love 's first blossoms are just around the corner , an old man feels angry and cheated that 40 years of his life have disappeared . |
| 72 | For every emotive vocal outburst from the strained tonsils of Paul , there 's a feeling that reality is fast vanishing around the corner of The Franks ' collective mind . |
| 73 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 74 | Hardly was he around the corner than the man in the parked car climbed out , crossed the road and let himself in to the apartment-block . |
| 75 | QUINN HAD DROPPED the attaché case into the open back of the Golf only thirty seconds after swerving around the corner of the street containing the apartment-block . |
| 76 | I forgot eggs , ’ he called , and scampered off down the stairs to get some from an early dairy around the corner . |
| 77 | There is unfortunately no miracle cure for leg ulcers around the corner ; community staff must be prepared to handle them in the most efficient and effective manner possible . |
| 78 | The only oddities were the ( apparently quite normal ) clouds of smoke exuded by the Marbore IIs on shut-down and the speed with which the fuel bowser zoomed around the corner to refill our tanks . |
| 79 | 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 . |
| 80 | Like Chelsea , Howe has suffered adversity but good times are surely just around the corner in the New Year . |
| 81 | Our politicians still speak of help coming just around the corner , but in the inner cities of England and America , among the chronically unemployed , among the young faced with the long-term prospects of AIDS or the imminent threat of annihilation , there is little talk of hope . |
| 82 | When Nicolae Ceauşescu first arrived in the city , Bucharest contained a dazzling array of buildings of all styles : examples of its older Balkan heritage could be found side by side with grandiose business palaces in the style of Central Europe 's Griinderjahre of the 1870s , with Art Deco and Cubist designs around the corner . |
| 83 | There is no notable deceleration , but I do n't know that my mind was recording anything but fear , nor is there any particular screech or roll , but suddenly we 're around the corner and accelerating down towards the tunnel and Jackie 's saying , ‘ You can relax now , Keith . ’ |
| 84 | He moved down the corridor and around the corner , where two more armed guards stood , alert , against either wall . |
| 85 | 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 . |
| 86 | Mechanical propulsion presently ranges from steam , through the various petrols and oils to gas and electric , with nuclear or magnetic etc. vehicles around the corner . |
| 87 | 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 . |
| 88 | The Manchester Business School and Cambridge University both reckon that the boom on the high street is just around the corner . |
| 89 | You may not know this — I 've studied sleeping , around the corner at the local college — grinding 's the result of too much stress . |
| 90 | 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 . |