Example sentences of "round the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Soon I was round the corner again and on my way back to the station . |
| 3 | He shivered ; he put the central heating on ‘ constant ’ ; he went round the corner for a bottle of whisky . |
| 4 | She dressed hurriedly , made herself a snack , took the bike and wheeled it round the corner of the cottage into the front garden . |
| 5 | And another one is just round the corner as this book is published . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It had certainly been risky , landing in the tree round the corner . |
| 15 | The shop round the corner 's selling these Christmas trees . |
| 16 | He walks off and I watch him till he disappears round the corner . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Try the place round the corner . ’ |
| 19 | You go to the place round the corner . |
| 20 | ‘ The place round the corner is closed , ’ you say . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I ca n't face the canteen but there 's a trattoria round the corner . |
| 23 | One woman back then was heard to say to another old granny , ‘ There 's a lovely funeral round the corner , ducks . |
| 24 | On Thursday 1 April 1982 , my day started early at the Cabinet Office , just round the corner from Downing Street in Whitehall . |
| 25 | He ran round the corner of the house . |
| 26 | We went round the corner out of the way only to find the lads from the nailery there . |
| 27 | I watched his shaking shoulders go out of the gate and disappear round the corner . |
| 28 | Kicking at pine cones on the path , Mungo was halfway to the top of the slope when a slight figure appeared round the corner of the station entrance . |
| 29 | However , as he approached Mr Zamoyski 's shop , a man in overalls cycled round the corner , his tin lunchbox under his arm . |
| 30 | The terrified Frankie skidded round the corner wall of the end house and raced as fast as his legs would carry him down towards the walkway gate . |