Example sentences of "[verb] around the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking around the corner is a wilder area , which is enclosed by trellis made of stout poles and hung with a most bewildering variety of clematis . |
| 2 | She only lives around the corner . ’ |
| 3 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 4 | They asked Mrs thomas to let them in , but she held a note up to the window asking them to fetch her daughter , Mr Bellamy 's mother , who lives around the corner . |
| 5 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 6 | The ramp is moved around the corner of the sports centre into perpetual shade . |
| 7 | When it got dark I drove over and parked around the corner . |
| 8 | The conveyance came around the corner , quite recklessly , and pulled up at the sight of him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had mastered Eddie 's cycle and came around the corner as though she were taking part in one of the bicycle races which had recently become such a popular spectator sport . |
| 11 | But as they came around the corner to the front of the house , they heard a familiar reedy voice hail them and , turning , found themselves confronted by Miss Merchiston herself , her pale eyes going from one to the other with the air of one who had known how it would be . |
| 12 | I knew no other way to learn technique , so I kept on trying to do what she told me , hoping for the best , hoping that my true voice would appear around the corner . |
| 13 | I ducked around the corner of the alleyway and flattened myself against the wall the way a flounder hugs the ocean floor . |
| 14 | Collins ushered Patrick and Jane back out onto the street — just in time to see the car come chuffing around the corner . |
| 15 | The Luggage hurtled around the corner , its several hundred knees moving like pistons . |
| 16 | At the next intersection he drew in against the left-hand wall , peering around the corner into the corridor to his left . |
| 17 | ‘ Money buys you certain things , but it ca n't buy you the simple pleasures in life like going around the corner into a bar and having a drink , ’ he says |
| 18 | As Guy sat contemplating this conclusion , a fair-haired child came racing around the corner of the north tower . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | While they watched the rain a horse suddenly walked around the corner of the track ahead . |
| 21 | In fact , they just walked around the corner and got into Agnes 's rented car . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They heard the car start at the third try and roar jerkily up the track behind the boathouse , leaving a faint cloud of blue smoke drifting around the corner . |
| 24 | He heard the Rover roar around the corner , accelerate past , then squeal to a stop and whine back in reverse . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Jack hit a few shots and when the headmaster had disappeared around the corner he strolled down to the green and dropped three or four balls into the hole ‘ just to make sure ’ . |
| 27 | He took a deep breath , primed the fuse , and leapt around the corner , arm raised . |
| 28 | She dashed around the corner , glad to see his dark bulk again . |
| 29 | or coming around the corner on his tractor |
| 30 | You open what appears to be a cupboard door and in fact the stairs go around the corner and back up on themselves . |