Example sentences of "[conj] round the corner " in BNC.
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1 | We have found that it is good to be factual and helpful on these occasions and that always one or two who live opposite , or round the corner or who know the building have been drawn in . |
2 | Three lorry loads are leaving each day bound for Cumbernauld , Elderslie or round the corner to BMK . |
3 | Got him buried yet , or cremated and his ashes scattered down Threadneedle Street or round the corner in your wine bar on the floor with the sawdust ? |
4 | The driver of the bus , meanwhile , cheerfully informs us , as we pass the theatre where Malcolm X was assassinated , that round the corner ‘ there 's a good hospital you can go to if you ever get shot ’ . |
5 | We might also note that , in order to arrive at the implicature , we have to know certain.facts about the world , that garages sell petrol , and that round the corner is not a great distance away . |
6 | It was only just getting over the shock 21 years later when an apparition sauntered past St Paul ‘ s School and round the corner of Gartocher Road into Shettleston Road . |
7 | I had rooms in college that year , so instead of turning east along the High I carried on down Magpie Lane and round the corner into Merton Street , taking care over the cobbles , treacherous when wet . |
8 | I looked all round — saw that boy — that Dayglo sock bastard — he was running past the end of the cobbly bit by the café and round the corner — and he was carrying my purple stripy barrel-bag . |
9 | There is a small shop flanked by brick cottages with pantiled roofs , and round the corner near the lane leading to the neighbouring hamlet of Uncleby is the now disused blacksmith 's forge , once so busy in the days of working horses . |
10 | IV or Four was on the door to the right and round the corner on the left was the Handwork Room , the Headmaster 's Study being on the extreme right next to the bathroom and opposite the Staff Common Room . |
11 | After a few minutes had passed a loud scream was heard , for it was an electric oven ; and Alf , with singed hair , ran out of the house , down the street and round the corner where he vaulted the Embankment wall , intending to drown himself in the river but forgetting that it was a low tide . |
12 | Paradise Street , next to Decimus Street and round the corner from the area known as the ‘ Dirty Wick ’ , was a hard place to call home . |
13 | I motion him away and he glides the car twenty yards forward and round the corner . |
14 | Imagine then you 're out , you 're in Wolverhampton , and you 're about to cross the street , and round the corner comes a big lorry . |
15 | Out of Decimus Street , and round the corner into Paradise Street , and immediately he was back in his childhood , eight years old and with itchy feet . |
16 | You go past past the library past the ambulance station and round the corner . |
17 | Non-tidal and desperately steep , they 'll be too hard for an old fart like me ; but round the corner is a huge , blocky , roofed sweep of rock on which I 'd reckon to stand a chance . |
18 | But round the corner there are side roads . |