Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] over the edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth , one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge , but eventually comes back to where one started . |
| 2 | Satisfied he was at least decently dressed , Seb raised his head cautiously and peered over the edge of the hollow . |
| 3 | Dyson swung left into a main road , looking over his shoulder to watch out for traffic from the right , and drove over the edge of the kerb . |
| 4 | ‘ If Alain was murdered and pushed over the edge the way I figured , then it could easily have been torn off . |
| 5 | The Prosecution alleges that it was here , on a night in November two years ago that Pauline Leyshon and her boyfriend Ivor Stokle were bundled into a car which was then set alight and pushed over the edge of the hill . |
| 6 | There the court heard they were forced into a car which was set alight and pushed over the edge . |
| 7 | And crawled over the edge of the dish and slid down into the mushy stuff . |
| 8 | He staggered back , slipped and fell over the edge of the roof . |
| 9 | I stumbled , fell and rolled over the edge of it . |
| 10 | I persuaded a friend of mine to visit the summit one evening and he was so taken in by the view that he stepped back from the trig point and disappeared over the edge of the crag that crowns the top . |
| 11 | He said nothing about the road being blocked behind us , or the man he had flushed out of the mist-shrouded mountainside and forced over the edge into the gorge below . |
| 12 | He waited a few moments until the footsteps were directly below him and peeked over the edge . |