Example sentences of "[prep] the edge [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All are lovely specimen trees for the edge of a lawn and , since they shrug off urban pollution , can be spectacular in a town garden if planted in full sun . |
| 2 | Being hurried down stairs , trying to feel for the edge of the steps , unable to see , was very unnerving . |
| 3 | Then the line of vehicles pulled away one by one , forming a loose convoy as they moved off along the deserted main street , heading for the edge of town . |
| 4 | The rider spurred for the edge of the covert , immediately in front of Nora , arriving there only just before the fox broke . |
| 5 | I left Werewolf with a withering look and headed for the edge of the road , cutting back deeper into the trees so I could n't be seen from the farmhouse when I reached the fenced-off field . |
| 6 | You can also make a gorgeous looped and fringed edge simply by knitting lots more rows between picking up the stitches to make loops at least en centimetres deep ( four inches ) — or even longer as a tremendous finish for shawls and stoles , or for the edges of collars and cuffs and jackets . |
| 7 | He felt for the edges of the square door , found them and lifted it gently . |
| 8 | Walling may have one or two faces , so a one-face finish may not be suitable for using as the edge of a tread instead of a paving slab , but would be for use underneath the slab . |
| 9 | It has meant , that churches need to be bold and be young or a threat to what we belong to as the edges between church and and community have blurred we are now much more vulnerable . |
| 10 | In most cases of the conversion of schools that incorporate this feature , the owners have wisely left space between the edge of the added floor and the window to give a mezzanine platform overlooking a ‘ double-height ’ living-room , as in the arrangement adopted at the west end of the main wing of Airton school . |
| 11 | She ran to it , scooped up handfuls of loose earth and began to make a barrier of it between the edge of the fire and the hayfield . |
| 12 | The boundary between the edge of the southern zone and the tundra is the 2°C July isotherm . |
| 13 | With more distance between the edge of the green and the flag , the shot does become easier with a lofted club , but even so , look to the putter as your safest route up a slope . |
| 14 | The greenbelt boundary as I mentioned earlier as proposed by the County Council is very tightly drawn , excluding the sites which have been mentioned which our allocated , there is no land between the edge of the urban area and the proposed greenbelt boundary and that does seem to us , continues to seem to us er not an appropriate way forward . |
| 15 | He examined it closer , and it was only then he noticed the faint crack which ran between the edges of the tiles . |
| 16 | From the window of the Pincushion Room he watched the man pottering about the edge of the lake . |
| 17 | Daddy Ni , as ever , drifted about the edges of the conflict , concentrating on the dogs , the pubs … |
| 18 | Walk through the edge of the plantation ahead and follow the track north across the moor to reach the iron age enclosures just south of the Fallowlees Burn . |
| 19 | The bronze sheeting was held to the cap , cheek-pieces , neckguard and mask by fluted strips of bronze riveted through the edges of the foil to the cap of the helmet . |
| 20 | So waits now as Lawrence comes up and bowls to him and this , oooh off the edge and that 's going down up towards the third man , going over the ropes down the far end and and that 's one boundary there off the edge at one hundred and thirteen for four , Lawrence wo n't be to happy about that , but it happens to all fast bowlers . |
| 21 | I was stealing something out of the film : I had captured the stars in the act , and they could n't slip away , off the edge of the screen . |
| 22 | There is nothing penal about Augusta 's design — there is no thick rough off the edge of the fairways or around the fringes of the greens , the bunkering is minimal , the fairways generous , and although there is a fair sprinkling of water hazards , it is certainly no more than the players come across practically every week on the Tour . |
| 23 | He stepped off the edge of the platform , onto the track . |
| 24 | They build up in shallow waters , off the edge of tropical or sub-tropical continents , where the waters are stirred , and light penetrates . |
| 25 | Go right and push the crate onto the button , go up on the lift and to the left , push the crate off the edge of the platform , go up on the lift and right , climb up six platforms and push the crate left , fall left and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , jump onto the ledges on the wall and go up , go right , up , left , up , push the crate right , fall down , push the crate right into the button , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , drop down to the stationary lift , go left then up , push the crate down , right , right , left , right and right onto the button . |
| 26 | Then why do I always feel as if I am falling off the edge of a cliff ? |
| 27 | He claims that he regards himself as ‘ someone who has stepped off the edge of a cliff ’ . |
| 28 | She slid off the edge of the bed . |
| 29 | News on Sunday ended up with the worst of both worlds — a paper with metropolitan Right-On concerns , produced in a city that had fallen off the edge of the Right-On world . |
| 30 | She slipped off the edge of the bed as if she had been injected with new life . |