Example sentences of "over [art] edge [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay watched her go , dip down , dip up , over the edge of the guttering . |
| 2 | The sea is calm , but such ripples as there are flick the light from the sun about and refract the view of the pebbles so that staring over the edge of the kayak is like peeing into a kaleidoscope over whose speed of rotation you have no control . |
| 3 | I was sure he knew I could barely contain myself or restrain my trembling fingers that longed to run their tips along the insides of those meaty thighs that were spreadeagled enticingly over the edge of his seat . |
| 4 | An image flitted into her mind : she saw herself plunge over the edge of that black pit and tumble helplessly through the dark . |
| 5 | Just over the edge of the cliff the most wonderful flower of all was growing , roots and leaves out of reach on the rocky perpendicular , but the blue spangle of its bloom poking up invitingly at the jagged rim of the cliff . |
| 6 | A child leaning over the edge of a precipice . |
| 7 | If one of them had tunnelled into a snowdrift , his ski-sticks unfindable , another had slipped and was dangling over the edge of a snow-capped tunnel . |
| 8 | Despite his fear he could n't help wanting to look over the edge of the basket but when he did was sure he saw , besides the surging of the sea , long black shadows just below the surface of the water . |
| 9 | Endill peered slowly over the edge of it . |
| 10 | The man tumbled on forward and over the edge of the track , a scattering of rocks heard through his scream and the splash as he hit the water eighty feet below . |
| 11 | She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and went over to the window to look down at the courtyard . |
| 12 | Ash liked his characters at or over the edge of madness , constructing systems of belief and survival from the fragments of experience available to them . |
| 13 | So pressing his camera to my eye I tried to focus on this tanned , happy man , standing with one boot over the edge of a 200- or 300-foot drop , and the other on the edge of thin air . |
| 14 | What a place to view not only the entire ridge-walk we had completed , but the majesty of Ben Nevis , the tips of the Glencoe mountains peeking over the edge of the Mamores to the south and the most perfect eagle 's eye view up to the head of Glen Nevis . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They ran side by side , easy with training , breathless only with amazement , and now the sun was coming up over the edge of the sea and the whole world was sharp and glittery , concrete and weeds , and the barbed wire hanging drops of dew and spiders ' webs . |
| 17 | He dared not move , for fear of starting a slide of loose stones that would carry him down and irresistibly over the edge of the quarry . |
| 18 | Slowly lower your head , slide back a yard or so , and then cast to the fish , or imagine you are casting if you have no rod with you , without allowing the rod-tip to show over the edge of the bank . |
| 19 | When eventually the moon came up over the edge of the trees he was able to see a group of four men and three horses coming towards him . |
| 20 | Then , with her back to the door , she sprinkled the rest of the contents of the bowl high into the air and out over the edge of the roof . |
| 21 | Then she pulled the old one out and threw it away , over the edge of the roof . |
| 22 | These nets are about the diameter of a bicycle wheel and are attached to a rope so that they can be lowered over the edge of jetties and into deep pools . |
| 23 | The first set can be supported under paving slabs , and holds six strands of wire projecting horizontally out over the edge of the pool . |
| 24 | Lee 's weeping was silent like water spilling over the edge of a suicide 's bath . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She peered over the edge of the bedstead and saw a cliff of bedcover stretching endlessly to the stone floor . |
| 27 | To add an even more damning touch , Zhukov had draped an airforce uniform over the edge of the bed , and superimposed Vologsky 's personal insignia upon it . |
| 28 | And crawled over the edge of the dish and slid down into the mushy stuff . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |