Example sentences of "round the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young fellers about fourteen to twenty — hanging round the corners , making a noise , and upsetting the people in the houses . |
| 2 | And of course joy is not joyful behaviour , nor yet a feeling round the corners of the mouth and the eyes . |
| 3 | The lines round the corners of the marquis 's mouth were deeply etched . |
| 4 | It crept round the corners of the buildings and hung in the doorways and fled in ragged wisps from the car headlights . |
| 5 | A cold grey light made its way round the corners of the curtains and trickled into the room . |
| 6 | Because somewhere in my mind , a mind which boggles with the last-minute sketches and songs and sudden announcements and warm wine and stale sandwiches and endless pacings round the corners of empty dressing-rooms — a still small voice is saying , ‘ Why ? |
| 7 | And it wo n't go round the corners ! |
| 8 | Round the corner was Dixon 's Blazes , a blast furnace , and the Workers ' Circle , where dreams of socialist emancipation were debated — dreams which were soon to fade for Glasser . |
| 9 | Soon I was round the corner again and on my way back to the station . |
| 10 | He shivered ; he put the central heating on ‘ constant ’ ; he went round the corner for a bottle of whisky . |
| 11 | She dressed hurriedly , made herself a snack , took the bike and wheeled it round the corner of the cottage into the front garden . |
| 12 | And another one is just round the corner as this book is published . |
| 13 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 14 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
| 15 | See , the other week there , I was on beat duty and this wee nipper , could n't have been more than 6 or 7 , came round the corner and says to me , ‘ Fuck off , ya black bastard . ’ |
| 16 | A few minutes later you are walking up a short wooden ladder , round the corner and you find a 200ft waterfall — bridges cross the torrent twice before you reach the top and continue along the path . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Going to grammar school really made me isolated It was only a couple of miles away from where I lived but that 's a long way when you 're only 11 — years-old and all your mates from junior school had gone to the local comprehensive round the corner . |
| 19 | So , as far as I can work it out , they found it was cool to go round to Wally 's and hang out , particularly as the school was only just round the corner from his place So they 'd sit there doing very little and getting bored . |
| 20 | As we got to Tottenham Court Road — which is just round the corner — she spotted the Ann Summers sex shop there and said , hang on , let's just pop in there for a minute . |
| 21 | It had certainly been risky , landing in the tree round the corner . |
| 22 | The shop round the corner 's selling these Christmas trees . |
| 23 | He walks off and I watch him till he disappears round the corner . |
| 24 | When I do that , it 's like summat inside of me is pulled out and streaks back up the street , under all the lights , right round the corner to where I ca n't see . |
| 25 | Try the place round the corner . ’ |
| 26 | You go to the place round the corner . |
| 27 | ‘ The place round the corner is closed , ’ you say . |
| 28 | Diana waited outside the main entrance of Great Ormond Street holding a clutch of excited little hands for a good five minutes before the Wishing Well song , which pop star Boy George had specially recorded for the appeal , struck up ; and then Father Christmas , in the shape of a heavily disguised Jimmy Tarbuck , juddered round the corner on his sleigh , pulled by two little white ponies . |
| 29 | I ca n't face the canteen but there 's a trattoria round the corner . |
| 30 | One woman back then was heard to say to another old granny , ‘ There 's a lovely funeral round the corner , ducks . |