Example sentences of "be [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Month after month , as the British economy has languished in a deep and damaging recession , the only reaction from a puzzled and beleaguered Government is the claim that it is not as bad as it seems and that good times are round the corner . |
| 3 | Barth was amused and pleased when he heard how someone said that if he and Ramsey could get on so well ‘ the millennium must be round the corner ’ . |
| 4 | Gooch , now 38 , continues to hint that the end of his playing career may be round the corner but would dearly like to complete this summer the double of a Test series win over Pakistan and Essex 's sixth championship title , having been around when all the other five were won . |
| 5 | I have the impression that in some quarters no thought is being given to what discoveries might be round the corner and in others no provision is being made to take advantage of them . |
| 6 | Judging by the hard work they 've put into their music over the last three years , that success could just be round the corner . |
| 7 | Meanwhile I had to get Harry well propped so that he would n't fall forward and drown after all , and to do that I reckoned we needed to be in the corner . |
| 8 | Jill ( 4.6 ) wanted the chimney to be in the corner but Ian insisted on the middle and won . |
| 9 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
| 10 | 1 The centre cross of your protractor has to be over the corner of the angle . |
| 11 | Suppose that eligible recipients have lower incomes : then it is arguable that with the transfer they would not be at the corner solution . |
| 12 | that lady is on , been on the corner , standing there talking for the last twenty minutes which must mean that Mark was late to school this morning so then |
| 13 | ‘ We talked ourselves into believing that those gaunt , tight-lipped men in caps and mufflers were round the corner and tailored our policy to match these imaginary conditions . ’ |
| 14 | When they were round the corner , it was impossible to see the heap of trees and rocks . |
| 15 | real exciting down there it was piece of wood tuck in , but since erm they were round the corner by . |
| 16 | Was it when you were round the corner ? |
| 17 | By 1702 , the house and grounds were held by Richard Boyle , the third Earl of Burlington , also the fourth Earl of Cork , who travelled extensively and had many influential friends , including Alexander Pope , who was considered to be head of the literary world and who moved with his parents , in 1716 , to the end house of Dr. Matthias Mawson 's new buildings ( Mawson Row ) , that end house being on the corner of Chiswick Lane and a lane that later became known as Mawson Lane ( now obliterated by the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension A.4. ) ; that end house , in due course , becoming a Public House named Fox and Hounds , following Alexander Pope 's removal to Strawberry Hill at Twickenham . |
| 18 | I think our problem here is it gets so windy with being on the corner . |
| 19 | They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction . |
| 20 | We were at the corner of an ‘ L ’ formed by the two roads down which the malais were coming . |
| 21 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 22 | Right at the end of the street was the wall of a very old building , the entrance being around the corner in Barnards Cross . |
| 23 | He said he 'd met Oliver in the florist 's round the corner on his way to the station . |
| 24 | Erm the best thing about this job is , you do n't know what 's round the corner . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's only when he 's round the corner I mind him not being with me . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's a chemist 's round the corner . ’ |
| 27 | She 's round the corner when Raymond . |
| 28 | Well it 's round the corner there . |
| 29 | They are ; and he 's pretty much the way they 'd constructed him , except that he 's in the corner , bent over and moaning . |
| 30 | It 's in the corner look . |