Example sentences of "[verb] over the edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that ready to jump over the edge yet . ’ |
| 2 | An image flitted into her mind : she saw herself plunge over the edge of that black pit and tumble helplessly through the dark . |
| 3 | She peered over the edge of the bedstead and saw a cliff of bedcover stretching endlessly to the stone floor . |
| 4 | I peered over the edge . |
| 5 | Satisfied he was at least decently dressed , Seb raised his head cautiously and peered over the edge of the hollow . |
| 6 | Sitting up , she peered over the edge of the hollow alongside Seb . |
| 7 | But he was too late : the knife tipped over the edge and went spinning off into the night . |
| 8 | From being able to cope just about ) with everyday life they were tipped over the edge into breakdown , from which only a few were able to re-emerge . |
| 9 | Why Charles was tipped over the edge |
| 10 | It was virtually a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and very sharp , the culvert blocked with stone and the remains of a small tree , so that the full volume of the water coming down the gully was swirling across the track to disappear over the edge , thundering down into the main gorge of the Jequetepeque . |
| 11 | And crawled over the edge of the dish and slid down into the mushy stuff . |
| 12 | Gripping the ski-poles I tried to keep myself steady as the velocity increased and then , all of a sudden I sailed over the edge and felt myself going head over heels towards a white mass of snow far below . |
| 13 | Julian Lewis , from Caerphilly , Mid Glamorgan , was on a trail at Rhydyfelin when he toppled over the edge . |
| 14 | ‘ The whiting cooked with its tail in its mouth teaches us to think all round a problem , ’ answered Auguste , lovingly poking back one tail that was sprawling over the edge of his basket . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The car shot over the edge and landed in a sand dune . |
| 17 | Lee 's weeping was silent like water spilling over the edge of a suicide 's bath . |
| 18 | He reversed the truck so that its winch poked over the edge of the drop . |
| 19 | His mother Brenda Telford , said : ‘ My lad was pushed over the edge . |
| 20 | ‘ If Alain was murdered and pushed over the edge the way I figured , then it could easily have been torn off . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There the court heard they were forced into a car which was set alight and pushed over the edge . |
| 23 | in the last one that she 's chained up to that big fat slug thing and they 're all being pushed over the edge of that big pit |
| 24 | I took a step forward so I could see over the edge . |
| 25 | She clambered over the edge of the dish , rolled together another lumpy ball of squishy food , climbed back out of the dish , rolled the ball across the garden and under the gate , scurried across the footpath to the riverbank , pushed the ball of dog food down the bank and into the drink . |
| 26 | The stream can be followed down towards the railway viaduct , the drab surroundings being suddenly and unexpectedly relieved when the stream , innocuous thus far , plunges over the edge of a limestone gorge . |
| 27 | I just managed to catch her as she was going over the edge . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 29 | Presently , Lorimer climbed over the edge of one of the balconies . |
| 30 | It was a warm night and Jo-Jo , wakeful and excited earlier , had kicked the bedclothes off with her feet , and one leg had slid over the edge of the bed until her toes touched the floor . |