Example sentences of "[noun pl] to the edge of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downward pressure on fees , together with a decline in the property market and escalating overheads , had driven some firms to the edge of bankruptcy and tempted solicitor to theft . |
| 2 | Side chains Lys23 and Thr25 on the ribbon surface of each subunit make direct hydrogen bonds to the edges of base pairs ( Figs 1 b and 2c ) , making the major contribution to sequence specificity in the complex . |
| 3 | From there they crawled the last ten yards to the edge of a rise and looked down into the valley . |
| 4 | ‘ Jottings ’ had not quite been pushed overboard ; it was clinging by its fingernails to the edge of the raft , to be found , often seriously cut , between the competition and the personal column at the back of the paper . |
| 5 | He goes to his lorry where he drags six bags to the edge of the lorry 's platform . |
| 6 | I went out through the glass doors to the edge of the little patio . |
| 7 | They walked Gorelli across the stones to the edge of a gravel pit . |
| 8 | We eased ourselves along the channel out between the rocks to the edge of where the waves were breaking and watched a few big sets roll through . |