What is "around the corner"

Usage examples of "around the corner".

He couldn't stay in the alley, he knew, for when the policeman came around the corner of the building, he would be a sitting duck.

These chapters are right, now, in every detail, for they were rewritten under the immediate eye of William Hicks, who studied law part of a while in southwest Missouri thirty-five years ago and then came over here to Florence for his health and is still helping for exercise and board in Macaroni Vermicelli's horse-feed shed, which is up the back alley as you turn around the corner out of the Piazza del Duomo just beyond the house where that stone that Dante used to sit on six hundred years ago is let into the wall when he let on to be watching them build Giotto's campanile and yet always got tired looking as Beatrice passed along on her way to get a chunk of chestnut cake to defend herself with in case of a Ghibelline outbreak before she got to school, at the same old stand where they sell the same old cake to this day and it is just as light and .

We followed the parapet around the corner and descended a flight of stairs.

The two men shook hands, and Winsett proposed a bock at a little German restaurant around the corner.

It would be hard to leave his friends in the parish, hard to leave his home-what with Molly's grave being just around the corner and all.

Finding all tight he hurried around the corner to the New Willard House and beat on the door.

He'd gone to his window then, concerned, wondering what was going on, and had seen T'swa dash around the corner of the barn on the next property north.

And just around the corner, in the small corridor, was the door Mr.

Liddy cried all day, and, because she knew I objected to tears, sniffled audibly around the corner.

He could only assume that the wind had pushed forward the withered shrub, which he glimpsed swaying out of sight around the corner closest to the sea, and a trick of perspective had made it look as if it were protruding from high up on the wall.

For example, ever since shortly before the turn of the century the neural-net computer has been something 'everybody knows' is just around the corner.

Fifteen minutes ago, the two had sat around the corner in Terrell’.

Lipshutz worked in a dingy green office around the corner from a supermarket.

Then, before any reply could be made, he vanished around the corner.

Ron gave a start and tried to hide behind Hermione as a girl came around the corner.