Example sentences of "she turn the corner " in BNC.

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1 As she turned the corner into Perry Street her heart began to pound .
2 Still , she said as she turned the corner of the High Street .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Then , when she turned the corner , he went out to the hall and picked up the phone .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Nathan was hauling the oilskins out of the locker as she turned the corner .
11 She went towards the house to say goodbye to Stella , and as she turned the corner of the building she almost collided with Luke .
12 As she turned the corner , her lips curved .
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