Example sentences of "around the [adj] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rich do not dare to be alone at night in their grand houses : who lurks to rape around the panelled corners , swings to attack from the ropes in the work-out room ? |
| 2 | The areas around the rear corners are unbelievably rough and there 's a sharp lump sticking out which is ideally placed for slicing the heel of your hand open . |
| 3 | It 's here that this particular burn springs a surprise , cutting a deep and narrow , zig-zag ravine through rock , beckoning you to explore around the next corner . |
| 4 | In the distance he could hear the sound of water dripping and he kept a look out for puddles , holes , fallen beams or any other dangers that might be around the next corner . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's just around the next corner . |
| 6 | Something great may just be waiting around the next corner , you know ? |
| 7 | Wearying though the journey had been at the time — even humiliating in respect of his being drawn in a litter — in retrospect it seemed full of excitement , a time when one knew not what would happen next or what lay around the next corner . |
| 8 | In Puritan homes in which novels were banned , and in Evangelical homes where they were banned on Sundays , generations of children , often skipping the doctrinal dialogue , have been fascinated and excited to imagine themselves to be Christian and Christiana , never knowing what adventures they will find around the next corner and confident that there will be a happy ending . |
| 9 | ‘ I could be involved in a number of different ways , ’ she continues , ‘ but I can still do it well enough , and you never know what 's around the next corner . |
| 10 | Sobbing with breathlessness he ran on , and — Lord love it ! — a taxi appeared around the next corner , its yellow light announcing its availability . |
| 11 | Lucidly , for instance , he explains how to counteract the ‘ around the next corner ’ syndrome which bugs all painter-travellers ; that will o' the wisp that tempts us all to go on ad infinitum , seeking the ‘ perfect ’ view , leaving us dispirited and fruitless . |
| 12 | Poldhu Cove was around the next corner . |
| 13 | Around the next corner he came to a hairpin bend where the road turned abruptly inland and up hill to Albert Terrace . |
| 14 | ‘ A word used by frightened children to describe nameless , formless horrors which await you in the fog , or around the next corner . ’ |
| 15 | Merymose looked around the darkening corners , wondering if it was the girl 's Ka . |