Example sentences of "be round the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Judging by the hard work they 've put into their music over the last three years , that success could just be round the corner . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | When they were round the corner , it was impossible to see the heap of trees and rocks . |
| 8 | real exciting down there it was piece of wood tuck in , but since erm they were round the corner by . |
| 9 | Was it when you were round the corner ? |
| 10 | He said he 'd met Oliver in the florist 's round the corner on his way to the station . |
| 11 | Erm the best thing about this job is , you do n't know what 's round the corner . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's only when he 's round the corner I mind him not being with me . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's a chemist 's round the corner . ’ |
| 14 | She 's round the corner when Raymond . |
| 15 | Well it 's round the corner there . |
| 16 | The behind-the scenes image created is of Hislop swapping Fergie news in the Groucho Club , while Merton is round the corner in The Three Ferrets reflecting bluntly on the real tit-bits . |
| 17 | ‘ This damning report blows away the the last remaining pretence that recovery is round the corner , ’ Labour industry spokesman Robin Cook said last night . |
| 18 | The warren is round the corner of the wood opposite . " |
| 19 | erm , you know why it 's different from the Travellers which is round the corner |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps the cathedral is round the corner and that is the Taj Mahal . ’ |
| 21 | In football , you never really know what is round the corner . |
| 22 | Texaco is round the corner . |
| 23 | Soon I was round the corner again and on my way back to the station . |
| 24 | You know a miracle will not happen but you find yourself behaving as if it might : we canvassed , those weeks before the election , with a heady feeling that success was round the corner . |
| 25 | I used to do all sorts of other jobs to keep going — I used to be so confident that work was round the corner that when I became a cellarman in a wine shop , I said to my family , ‘ Of course , I 'll only be here for a week or two , you know , ’ and a year later I was still there . |
| 26 | The shop was round the corner in Back Lane . |
| 27 | The cinema was round the corner and |
| 28 | I walked along the road while Frankland was watching me , but as soon as I was round the corner , I went towards the hill where we had seen the boy . |
| 29 | I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll |