Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I caught it in the banisters as I turned the corner , ’ I lied . |
| 2 | ‘ As I turned the corner I saw the flag flying at half-mast and the meaning of it came like a flash . ’ |
| 3 | As I turned the corner , chicken and peasant grew limp together , one in triumph , the other in defeat . |
| 4 | I turned the corner into Bank Street , pounded down it just missing two lamp-posts , took a sharp left into Adam Smith Street and came to McGarvie 's garage . |
| 5 | I turned the corner and the van was straight in front of me , there was nothing I could do . |
| 6 | Looking hard at the castle , sketchbook in hand , I allowed the corner of my eye to rove the tinker camp . |
| 7 | Holding the tile hard against a metal vice , I hit the corner with a small hammer , knocking off the back of the corner ( about ¾in at a time ) . |
| 8 | I do n't think he meant me harm , but somehow I hit the corner of the wardrobe and got myself a black eye and one or two other bruises … ’ |
| 9 | I expected Father to chase me , but when I reached the corner and looked back he was just standing there talking to the thin man . |
| 10 | A forward has a sixth sense and from an early stage I realised I had the corner back in my pocket . |
| 11 | I saw him as I rounded the corner ; very handsome , expensively dressed , a casualness no European can muster . |
| 12 | She dabbed the corner of her eye with a black-edged handkerchief . |
| 13 | As she turned the corner into Perry Street her heart began to pound . |
| 14 | Still , she said as she turned the corner of the High Street . |
| 15 | This was the very thought in her head as she turned the corner of the corridor and back into the waiting room and saw the weeping figure of a woman hunched over and hugging herself with grief . |
| 16 | Now she stood at the gate of Ten-acre Pasture , staring across the hedgetops to the control tower that jutted into the gentle landscape with angular obscenity , begging silently that when she turned the corner he would be there . |
| 17 | Then , when she turned the corner , he went out to the hall and picked up the phone . |
| 18 | One of the stairs cracked sharply beneath her foot ; she heard the front door of one of the ground-floor flats open behind her , and as she turned the corner of the staircase she caught a glimpse of a single eye and a draggle of grey hair at the crack . |
| 19 | She kept sight of him in her mirror — hands in pockets , bedraggled — until she turned the corner , hoping that image would be the last she would ever have of him . |
| 20 | She turned the corner and glanced up at the hoarding above the cinema 's portico , to see what was to be her fate for the next three hours . |
| 21 | As she turned the corner , about four feet ahead of her at the saloon end of the passage , Nathan was sitting in the well-padded swivel chair bolted to the deck in front of the chart table . |
| 22 | Nathan was hauling the oilskins out of the locker as she turned the corner . |
| 23 | She went towards the house to say goodbye to Stella , and as she turned the corner of the building she almost collided with Luke . |
| 24 | As she turned the corner , her lips curved . |
| 25 | She kissed the corner of his mouth . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 27 | When she reached the corner table Silas said with approval . |
| 28 | This afternoon , however , she was too much perturbed in her mind to trouble about such things , and she rounded the corner at a run which would have spelt disaster had anyone been coming in the opposite direction . |
| 29 | It was only as she rounded the corner that she remembered she had n't thanked him for walking her home . |
| 30 | As we turned the corner Mel was ambling up out of an underground car park — he 'd been parking his Rolls-Royce or something . |