Example sentences of "[vb pp] to the edge of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We rode like the wind and by ten o'clock had come to the edge of the forest of Zenda . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In recent months the deepening troubles of Eastern Europe have been pushed to the edge of the world 's stage by the Gulf crisis . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A Fishguard smuggler whose ship happened to be at anchor there opened fire with his single cannon , and another gun was dragged to the edge of the cliff and joined in . |
| 11 | Driven to the edge of despair and traumatised by the prospect of a court-case that deeply injured his pride , he threw himself in front of an express train bound for Edinburgh . |
| 12 | They had driven to the edge of the city , into the brittle mauve of dusk , lights starting up in buildings everywhere as if some vast signal beacon were slowly igniting . |
| 13 | Gloucester 's immediate influence was mainly restricted to the edges of the county : to the lordship of Clitheroe in the east and to Furness in the north — both areas where his influence was in a sense overspill from more substantial interests elsewhere . |
| 14 | Gloucester 's immediate influence was mainly restricted to the edges of the county : to the lordship of Clitheroe in the east and to Furness in the north — both areas where his influence was in a sense overspill from more substantial interests elsewhere . |
| 15 | Under the single window was Orrie 's work-bench , a vice clamped to the edge of it , and a rack of tools arranged under the window-sill . |
| 16 | He grinned and pointed to an electric stapler clamped to the edge of the table . |
| 17 | Urged on by the tide of his insistence , Elisabeth felt herself being swept to the edge of a desolate strand . |
| 18 | Cultivation spread to the edge of forests that had previously been the tiger 's domain , and the forests themselves were clear-felled . |
| 19 | He called the RAC once more and arranged for the car to be taken to the edge of Brighton . |
| 20 | Detailed mapping and dating of geomorphological features ( Sutherland and Walker , 1984 ; Sutherland , 1984 ) indicate that part of northern Lewis was ice-free during the last glaciation and the last Scottish ice-sheet did not extend beyond the Outer Hebrides , contrary to the widespread assumption that this ice-sheet extended to the edge of the continental shelf . |
| 21 | Once through their sleeves the poles are inserted into small eyelets which are attached to the edge of the groundsheet . |
| 22 | Fix in place with strips of tape attached to the edge of the container . |
| 23 | The embalmer consulted the writing on a limestone flake attached to the edge of the trough . |