Example sentences of "[verb] to the edge of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh , who had been reading about the dangers of having a smoker as a cohabitee , waved his handkerchief through the air and moved to the edge of the terrace . |
| 2 | Before he expected , his feet met blocks of stone , and he realised that he had come to the edge of the great sprawling tip of the infill . |
| 3 | It is clear that during the past twenty years developmental psychologists have come to the edge of a vast array of structural processes in the development of the mind , and an exciting era of experimental research has begun . |
| 4 | We rode like the wind and by ten o'clock had come to the edge of the forest of Zenda . |
| 5 | The radial shields are large and contiguous or nearly so in spinea while they are quite small , usually separated and confined to the edge of the disk in hamula. 3 . |
| 6 | As the acrid smoke cleared , the Marines advanced , keeping to the edges of the doorway , which was not locked , the mechanism apparently having jammed . |
| 7 | Keeping it raised above his head , he staggered to the edge of the grassy bank and dropped the craft on to the surface of the clear water . |
| 8 | I would have liked to creep to the edge of the podium and disappear . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Illustrations that spread to the edge of the paper without margins are referred to as ‘ bled off ’ . |
| 11 | We had moved to the edges of our previously closed system of thought and action , both physically and philosophically , and almost implicitly came to recognize that the ‘ foundation metaphors ’ which Turner identifies as being crucial to transformational experience of liminality were making paradigmatic statements about our own cultural format ; although I know we would have been unable to articulate this . |
| 12 | For example , some were moved to the edges of the older urban cores as a result of the construction of peripheral public-housing schemes in the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 13 | They came to the edge of the moors and turned down a steep track towards the beach . |
| 14 | Following a path eastwards through the heather , we came to the edge of the heath land , where silver birches had invaded the bracken . |
| 15 | Viktor came to the edge of the bed . |
| 16 | To her astonishment he came to the edge of the balcony and simply climbed across , ignoring the drop . |
| 17 | The provost came to the edge of the scaffold , unrolled a parchment and read the sentences of death . |
| 18 | Without waiting for her answer , Guy Sterne straightened up , strolled to the edge of the pool , and dived effortlessly into the turquoise water . |
| 19 | In recent months the deepening troubles of Eastern Europe have been pushed to the edge of the world 's stage by the Gulf crisis . |
| 20 | Voices were suddenly raised over in the crowd and people began scattering to the edges of the area , clearing the centre and falling silent . |
| 21 | She inches to the edge of the bed , he follows ; she lies on her back , his hand attempts to part her furiously dry lips ; she wraps herself in the sheet , the tense warmth of his body suffocates her doubly ; she leaps up and goes to the lavatory , he watches her through the glass wall . |
| 22 | I 've struggled to the edge of the navigable world in my Argo to find the golden fruits of the setting sun , and now I 've found them and they 're guarded by maidens . |
| 23 | They had perhaps three hundred yards to cover to the edge of the encampment ; and as they neared this it dawned on Ramsay that , of all things , the enemy had placed their horse-lines here at this western rim of their cantonment . |
| 24 | And red-faced Brucie , brought back to steady the ship , blundered for the second goal , racing to the edge of his area to punch straight to Earle who sent a superbly-judged lob back over him from 25 yards . |
| 25 | It caused him to scuttle to the edge of the path and roll into a ball . ’ |
| 26 | Cleo scampered to the edge of the clearing and looked back . |
| 27 | She buttoned up , put on her shorts , slung her bag over her shoulder and walked to the edge of the sea , then back again . |
| 28 | He walked to the edge of the shelf . |
| 29 | They walked to the edge of town and shook hands . |
| 30 | After a couple of minutes he gave up the attempt , left the tool box by the cottage wall and walked to the edge of the cliff then slithered down to the beach . |