Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the tourist at heart visit Madam Tussauds or the Planetarium ( ideal for wet weather ) which are literally around the corner . |
| 2 | He knows exactly what she means — he was brought up in a street that might have been just round the corner . |
| 3 | Yet the public is regularly given the impression that a general solution to the problem of natural-language understanding has been found , and that computers with the ability to chat to us and with various other human characteristics are just around the corner . |
| 4 | Old ladies trapped in time imagine they are in 1929 and love 's first blossoms are just around the corner , an old man feels angry and cheated that 40 years of his life have disappeared . |
| 5 | A Noel Coward lyric goes ‘ Bad times are just around the corner ’ ( ‘ There are black clouds over the dark cliffs of Dover ’ ) and many homes this Christmas will be Dickensian in a depressing rather than a jolly sense . |
| 6 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 7 | The way this business is moving , you really never know what exciting new opportunities are just around the corner . |
| 8 | Spokesman John Dunwell said : ‘ Our premises in Zetland Road are just round the corner from from the town 's red light district and some of our members do not like using the building because of the district 's association with prostitution . |
| 9 | They 're just round the corner . |
| 10 | And I said oh no , they 're just round the corner . |
| 11 | She might think we 're just around the corner and that we 're not coming to see her . |
| 12 | If they 're not on the corner , it-s likely the boys there will know where you can find them . |
| 13 | So far no-one has succeded in activating methane , but if the current rate of progress is maintained that feat must be just around the corner . |
| 14 | Everyone stayed awake instead , believing that something exciting had to be just around the corner . |
| 15 | The Bengali lady who enrolled in an English cookery class , so that she could provide English food for some of her son 's chums at school , is likely next to take a GCSE in English and help prepare herself for a job that may be just around the corner . |
| 16 | So when people gather round the manger with wonder and puzzlement , I 'm over in the corner looking at the cows . |
| 17 | I 'm off round the corner after it like Wally the cat ; then I pounce . |
| 18 | And by the time he got to the next corner , we 'd be back on the corner . ' |
| 19 | Even then , when others were talking of fusion reactors being just around the corner , Cockcroft warmed that ‘ it is difficult for us with our limited vision to see far enough ahead to say whether and when the final goal can be achieved . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's about nobody ever going away but always being just round the corner , waiting to be caught up with . |
| 21 | And er ooh what was the name , there was a grocery shop and then there was a , a confectioner 's right on the corner of erm er is it called , that leads off in , into It only , only a short street , there 's no houses in it actually . |
| 22 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 23 | They just do it 's only round the corner and I remember last time I said I 'd take you and I did n't . |
| 24 | It 's only round the corner from her is n't it mum ? |
| 25 | Yeah , it 's only round the corner , you can park right . |
| 26 | If the Doors comparisons are to be believed — which they are not — success is only around the corner if the amount of hype for Oliver Stone 's movie is anything to go by . |
| 27 | Your dentist is only round the corner from where you work though is n't it ? |
| 28 | Equally , however , there are respected industry commentators who are certain that the first agreed takeover of a building society is just around the corner . |
| 29 | If you achieve this , then a record deal is just around the corner , and you will have earned yourself a strong negotiating position which should enable you to sign the deal you want and not the first deal that is offered . |
| 30 | Labour has campaigned strongly on its £1 billion ‘ recovery package ’ while Mr Lilley , a firm believer in Thatcherite non-intervention , has had to rely on promises that recovery is just around the corner . |