Example sentences of "turned the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial markets are apprehensive that the trade deficit has still not turned the corner and a poor figure could shake sterling again . |
| 2 | He quit the booth and had just turned the corner when the plain-clothes policeman emerged from an alley and glanced at the bank of kiosks . |
| 3 | He and the club may have turned the corner . ’ |
| 4 | We sorted a few things out then and now we have turned the corner . ’ |
| 5 | When we have turned the corner , I will sit down with the manager and discuss the future with him . ’ |
| 6 | Once she had turned the corner and the house was hidden from view , she jumped off her bike and pushed it through the maze of potholes that pitted the drive as it meandered the half mile to the main gates . |
| 7 | They had just turned the corner of the NAAFI building on their way to the public road that ran through the camp when they bumped into two airmen . |
| 8 | Maybe we have now turned the corner . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The general feeling around here is : we 've finally turned the corner . ’ |
| 10 | He waited until Meredith had turned the corner before going downstairs to put on his Sunday overcoat . |
| 11 | Once he had turned the corner , he took the coat off and slipped it over his arm . |
| 12 | As soon as they had turned the corner , however , he put his paper down and headed for the row of pay phones that lined the wall . |
| 13 | She had , only the other day , seen a policeman and -woman exerting more force than had seemed strictly necessary on a man in the street : at the time she had assumed that he had offered fierce resistance until she had turned the corner , at which moment he had been subdued . |
| 14 | Despite these salutary precedents , I am increasingly confident that the Royal Bank Group has turned the corner . |
| 15 | I hope we have turned the corner . |
| 16 | Their car had hardly turned the corner when the mob arrived and smashed the house to pieces . |
| 17 | ‘ We can slip out when he has turned the corner . |
| 18 | But we 've turned the corner . |
| 19 | Although the maternal recommendation was that Jane should see a psychiatrist or a priest , it transpired that Jane felt she had turned the corner simply by spilling out her innermost thoughts to her mother . |
| 20 | The only bright spot on the horizon as far as she could see was that Barney must have turned the corner and be getting better . |
| 21 | ‘ After the dark days of 70 's and 80's , I think we have turned the corner and have shown what can be done when , even in a remote community like ours , people get together and work for their mutual benefit . ’ |
| 22 | The location publicity officer , Liz Kallend , looking shaken , said : ‘ Everyone thought that the show had turned the corner . ’ |
| 23 | The location publicity officer , Liz Kallend , looking shaken , said : ‘ Everyone thought that the show had turned the corner . ’ |
| 24 | A SURGE in mortgage activity raised fresh hopes yesterday that the housing market has finally turned the corner . |
| 25 | The economy may well have turned the corner by the next election . |
| 26 | it 's a reaction and it 's caused that er , but it 's not malignant he 's literally turned the corner oh , Monday , Tuesday |
| 27 | Anyway , it 's very , very good news , he 's turned the corner I 've hit him over the head with the newspaper ! |