Example sentences of "[vb past] over [art] edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | She peered over the edge of the bedstead and saw a cliff of bedcover stretching endlessly to the stone floor . |
| 2 | I peered over the edge . |
| 3 | Satisfied he was at least decently dressed , Seb raised his head cautiously and peered over the edge of the hollow . |
| 4 | Sitting up , she peered over the edge of the hollow alongside Seb . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Julian Lewis , from Caerphilly , Mid Glamorgan , was on a trail at Rhydyfelin when he toppled over the edge . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He reversed the truck so that its winch poked over the edge of the drop . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Presently , Lorimer climbed over the edge of one of the balconies . |
| 11 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 12 | In the seconds at the bottom when everything had steadied , when there was n't a breath of air , just a strange unreal calm , he rolled over the edge and clawed his way on to the thin rubber bottom of the raft . |
| 13 | I stumbled , fell and rolled over the edge of it . |
| 14 | He staggered back , slipped and fell over the edge of the roof . |
| 15 | It fell over the edge of the road and down into the valley . |
| 16 | Even as she watched they disappeared over the edge , leaving her in a watery isolation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I can still see the blood starting from the man 's nose , the way his arms reached out as his feet rocked back on to nothing , and still hear the dreadful high-pitched rabbit cry as his body disappeared over the edge . |
| 19 | The rope beside Grant went taut and began to give off creaking noises of friction at the point where it disappeared over the edge of the stone coping , as it took the weight of the climbing man below . |
| 20 | But when I looked over the edge there was no sign of him , or of the river — only the mist swirling . |
| 21 | While he was deliberating , another thought suddenly struck Huy , and he leant over the edge of the trough , feeling the girl 's stomach and breasts . |
| 22 | As they approached , a big rabbit appeared over the edge of the ditch , looked at them quickly and vanished into the bank . |
| 23 | He waited a few moments until the footsteps were directly below him and peeked over the edge . |
| 24 | In his memoirs , Confessions of an Actor , Olivier relates that there was a conflict between his business , artistic and domestic life and admitted he ‘ slipped over the edge ’ in allowing the demands of his job to outweigh the importance of his family . |
| 25 | Allen sat for a moment on the parapet , Marian saw him smile at her , then he slipped over the edge and the rope grew taut on the hook . |
| 26 | The real reason Sinead slipped over the edge |
| 27 | Everything then became a kaleidoscopic array of sounds and feelings as they slipped over the edge of control . |
| 28 | Water slopped over the edge of the sink and over her bare feet . |
| 29 | She leaned over the edge of the plank . |
| 30 | I did my usual bird impression — ‘ A Vulture ’ — best executed in Valentino or Yves St Laurent , with knees tucked under armpits , toes clawed over the edge of a sturdy table and neck and mouth stretched to capacity until the cords and sinews stand out . |