Example sentences of "to the edge of " in BNC.
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| 31 | But he was perilously close to the edge of the crumbling cliff . |
| 32 | On my last full day in her house , Mrs Knelle declared that she would drive me through the mountains of Joyce 's Country to the edge of Connemara . |
| 33 | I would have liked to creep to the edge of the podium and disappear . |
| 34 | This observation leads to a common visual problem arising in painting when a line in the background is brought hard up to the edge of a foreground object . |
| 35 | Urged on by the tide of his insistence , Elisabeth felt herself being swept to the edge of a desolate strand . |
| 36 | He was coming to the edge of the platform . |
| 37 | In bringing Labour to the edge of victory , Mr Kinnock has performed a near-miracle . |
| 38 | Ormondroyd should have beaten him when he scooped the ball over the bar from six yards , then the goalkeeper ran to the edge of the penalty area to clear off the Leicester forward 's toes . |
| 39 | The cafe was divided up by glass partitions , engraved with pictures of propeller -driven aeroplanes emerging from gigantic cloud banks , or simply rays of sunlight darting here and everywhere , right up to the edge of the bevelled glass . |
| 40 | But as he spoke the figure jumped to its feet and ran to the edge of the shelf . |
| 41 | He walked to the edge of the shelf . |
| 42 | Detailed mapping and dating of geomorphological features ( Sutherland and Walker , 1984 ; Sutherland , 1984 ) indicate that part of northern Lewis was ice-free during the last glaciation and the last Scottish ice-sheet did not extend beyond the Outer Hebrides , contrary to the widespread assumption that this ice-sheet extended to the edge of the continental shelf . |
| 43 | What they can not lift they put between their legs and waddle with to the edge of the bus . |
| 44 | Its recognition of the significance of the motor car and its removal to the edge of the main city area was ominous . |
| 45 | The so-called Alamein position ran from the sea southwards to the edge of the Qattara Depression , a deep chasm 150 miles long and with very steep sides . |
| 46 | There is a huge sign here below the Allt Coire Giubhsachan , a steep , slabby waterfall cascading down to the edge of the car park , that yells , ‘ WARNING ! |
| 47 | If you do venture by car on to the edge of Otmoor , there is the feeling that you will be unable to turn around in the narrow space between the dykes , or may get stuck up to the axles in mud . |
| 48 | Access by car is easy now , down a forestry road , almost to the edge of the loch . |
| 49 | For long periods , this somewhat improbable lake is so safe and tranquil that visitors can come right to the edge of the crater , without the least hazard . |
| 50 | A direct descent to Wharfe can be made , as indicated by the dotted line on the map , by walking west from the column to the edge of the escarpment and following this south until a breach occurs to permit a passage down the slope to a path that joins White Stone Lane near the hamlet . |
| 51 | And when it sprayed sparks almost to the edge of the wide hearth he made no comment , such as , ‘ Be careful . |
| 52 | He reached the fence first , then wriggled his way under the wire and ran to the edge of the vivid-green swampland . |
| 53 | Christine wheeled the pram to the edge of the open green where they were going to play , and then ran back . |
| 54 | The bream pick up a bait by simply sucking it to the edge of their lips , and then move away from the main shoal to consume it . |
| 55 | There Was only one conclusion I could come to : heavier baits and indicators were too heavy for the bream to carry away with the bait sucked to the edge of their lips , so they had to grip with their lips to manage it . |
| 56 | When you draw level , drop down onto your belly and slide to the edge of the bank until you can slowly raise your head to pinpoint their exact position . |
| 57 | Watch how they move right up to a certain morsel and pick it up with their lips , or how they move no closer than several inches to another and then draw it to the edge of their lips with a mighty suck . |
| 58 | I re-rig with the ½oz bullet and then cast right to the edge of the raft . |
| 59 | Driven to the edge of despair and traumatised by the prospect of a court-case that deeply injured his pride , he threw himself in front of an express train bound for Edinburgh . |
| 60 | I refer to the children closer and closer to the margins of predictable deviation — the hyperactive youngster with emotional problems , which brings autism to the edge of the teacher 's diagnosis ; the child , otherwise quick-witted , who has massively disabling short-term memory and a confusion in decoding letters : what some would call dyslexia ; the child whose spatial intelligence is exceptionally and marvellously out of line with the celebratory rites of the school community , who fails in conventional school work . |