Example sentences of "around the corner [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A small smile plays teasingly around the corners of my mouth and I ask , ‘ Do you have jobs ? ’
2 A dangerous light glinted in his eyes , small lines flared around the corners of his mouth , and his colour was slightly heightened .
3 It was as she came to the end of her enthusiastic little speech that she realised she was leaning halfway across his desk , so close that she could almost have counted his lashes and the tiny fine lines around the corners of his mouth .
4 Smooth and fit the icing around the corners before smoothing down the sides .
5 Just when you are alerted to one con trick , it seems someone else is waiting around the corner with another devious way of getting you to part with your money .
6 You may not know this — I 've studied sleeping , around the corner at the local college — grinding 's the result of too much stress .
7 Just around the corner at Fawbush a senior member of the Canadian art scene , Betty Goodwin , holds forth with paintings , sculpture and drawings .
8 New premises , around the corner at the top end of Fulham Road , were acquired to serve as the outlet for adult clothes .
9 Some quick research around the corner at the New York Genealogical Society .
10 Well that that is now accommodation for away supporters down at there is no cover over it as yet , there were plans to make a covered stand of it but er they have n't it has been covered over and that 's where the away supporters still stand to this day and a little bit around the corner at the bottom end , at the railway end as they call it now , not the laundry end .
11 T. D. There were always twenty or thirty or so bucks hanging around the corner on Nichols Street , and if they saw you coming , they 'd all move .
12 I was a bit worried about how the string-balance would work out on this guitar , since the pickup has to be bent around the corner on the Lowden 's split-saddle channel , but everything 's fine .
13 Most would have earnings more like those of the Fu family , who live just around the corner on an income that is about one-fifteenth of the Lis ' .
14 The brown canvas delivery sack was hidden around the corner on a stone shelf , several inches above the rotten humus that blocked the culvert .
15 or coming around the corner on his tractor
16 The drug-store , where he had breakfasted late , was around the corner on Walnut Street , a deep dim-lit room with a counter and stools midway down one side , after the racks of magazines and trinkets .
17 The ramp is moved around the corner of the sports centre into perpetual shade .
18 Or are we just creatures of our time , trapped by our failure to see the solutions around the corner of our life-span ?
19 While they watched the rain a horse suddenly walked around the corner of the track ahead .
20 For every emotive vocal outburst from the strained tonsils of Paul , there 's a feeling that reality is fast vanishing around the corner of The Franks ' collective mind .
21 QUINN HAD DROPPED the attaché case into the open back of the Golf only thirty seconds after swerving around the corner of the street containing the apartment-block .
22 After Johnny disappeared from view around the corner of the house , Cassie wandered disconsolately indoors , realizing that she needed both the bathroom and something to drink.Although she had n't eaten since lunch time , she had no appetite and the thought of food nauseated her .
23 The groom 's party — green-turbanned farmers from Haryana — appeared around the corner of the lane and formed a circle outside the entrance of the house .
24 Back on the veranda , the chairs were still empty , but before they could sit down there came the sound of footsteps and Faye Hamilton came around the corner of the house .
25 He clenched his teeth together but the first syllable forced itself around the corner of his mouth .
26 Then Benedict was running , with Theda in hot pursuit , around the corner of the house towards Switham Thicket .
27 As Guy sat contemplating this conclusion , a fair-haired child came racing around the corner of the north tower .
28 She shivered as a stray gust of wind whistled around the corner of a side-street , averting her eyes from the shadows cast by the encroaching house frontages .
29 When she turned left around the corner of the house , a dilapidated building came into view .
30 I ducked around the corner of the alleyway and flattened myself against the wall the way a flounder hugs the ocean floor .
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