Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFTER several dreadful years , America 's insurance companies are showing signs of turning the corner . |
| 2 | by a terror of turning the corner . |
| 3 | The village contained little more than cottages , but the spirit of the day had been caught … and two or three of the best of them were smartened up with a white curtain and ‘ lodgings to let ’ — and further on in the little green court of an old farm house , two females in elegant white were actually to be seen with their books and camp-stools — and in turning the corner of the baker 's shop , the sound of a harp might be heard through the upper casement . |
| 4 | In navigating the corner he had walked from shade straight into the blinding-white glare of the sun and , as her gallop had ceased , so the man also stopped dead , apparently dazzled despite the protection of a pair of sepia-tinted gold-rimmed glasses . |
| 5 | Just after my birthday in September 1922 , we came out from afternoon school on a Tuesday and , on reaching the corner of St. Martin 's Church Street , saw quite a lot of people at the bottom of St. Ann 's Street . |
| 6 | On the way , all my sisters talked about was the murder and when , on reaching the corner of Fair View Road and Kelsey Road , we met my cousin Violet the gossip was renewed with interest . |
| 7 | By using the corner , edge or side of a Polychromos Pastel , marks ranging from the very fine to the very broad can be achieved with ease and , by varying the pressure of the stroke , the colour deposit may be varied in strength between delicate and intense . |
| 8 | But not everyone in the gang has Q's options and inclinations , and the hard one , Bishop ( Shakur ) , decides that the best way he and the guys can prove they 've got ‘ the juice ’ is by robbing the corner store . |