Example sentences of "[pers pn] turn 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 | And I would rush to the window and look down and see you turning the corner to cross the square below , or walk round it to the hotel door . |
| 7 | As she turned the corner into Perry Street her heart began to pound . |
| 8 | Still , she said as she turned the corner of the High Street . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then , when she turned the corner , he went out to the hall and picked up the phone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nathan was hauling the oilskins out of the locker as she turned the corner . |
| 17 | She went towards the house to say goodbye to Stella , and as she turned the corner of the building she almost collided with Luke . |
| 18 | As she turned the corner , her lips curved . |
| 19 | As you turn the corner towards the church of St Mary , which was enthusiastically restored in the picturesque style during the nineteenth century , you are bowled over by the beauty of this grandest of farms . |
| 20 | Then you turn the corner and you 're out again . |
| 21 | You are happily filling your basket with the week 's groceries when you turn the corner into the next aisle and suddenly you see a roaring lion , its teeth glistening , open-mouthed and heading straight for you . |
| 22 | straight in , as you turn the corner you went straight into it and it was all in that building and that end |
| 23 | As we turned the corner Mel was ambling up out of an underground car park — he 'd been parking his Rolls-Royce or something . |
| 24 | They turned the corner of the house and saw what looked like an outbuilding , only rather a smart one , painted white and with a tub of nasturtiums outside the open front door . |
| 25 | ‘ God that man 's a nuisance , ’ Fiona said , as they turned the corner in the drive and the lights of the castle came into view against the coal-dark night . |
| 26 | His own car was a few yards ahead , and he could be in and started before they turned the corner — but not out of sight . |
| 27 | As they turned the corner , the first flakes of snow fell . |
| 28 | They turned the corner into the street where Gabriel lived ; she had a tiny flat . |
| 29 | I watched him until he turned the corner . |
| 30 | He turned the corner miserably , bumping into Elsie with their fish and chips . |