Example sentences of "around the edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sometimes puts slices of smoked guinea fowl around the edge to give added texture . |
| 2 | A piece of chewing gum had been trodden into the funny carpet border around the edge of the room . |
| 3 | That is , with a path slap down the middle , a flanking washing line and four narrow borders around the edge . |
| 4 | Brush lightly to give a lighter tone and use more pressure to give a darker ‘ shadow ’ around the edge of the fruit . |
| 5 | A squeegee tool is used to smooth out the film and the excess film around the edge of the window is trimmed off with a safety knife . |
| 6 | A raggedness around the edge of his thick , ginger beard seems a symptom of the nerve-fraying tension that surrounds a match of this importance . |
| 7 | Around the edge of each page , was a pattern of angels ' heads with blue wings . |
| 8 | Cut notches for the scions around the edge of the severed branches and insert a scion into each so that the green layer of tissue just beneath the bark ( cambium layer ) of both scion and stock meet each other . |
| 9 | Rather like a Jackanapes , but with the colour in the calyx running around the edge like a frill . |
| 10 | Gone are the days when your emotional state was indicated by the depth of black border around the edge of your stationery or by changing your clothes from black to mauve to grey . |
| 11 | On warm sunny days you may see Red-eared Terrapins basking around the edge of the lake . |
| 12 | With a central lawn and borders around the edge , this garden would have lacked character , but internal hedges and a patio overhead had been used to create distinct areas that can be explored like the rooms of a house , each with a new mood and style . |
| 13 | The calendar , with dates of school holidays clearly marked , takes up the central panel of the sheet , around the edge are further panels containing information about staff , governors , PTA , emergency contacts , useful phone numbers and how long children should be kept off school for mumps , measles and other common childhood illnesses . |
| 14 | Yet I milled around the edge of the crowd at the demonstration feeling completely detached . |
| 15 | This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill . |
| 16 | We have covered around the edge of the punt with pipe insulation , which again cuts down noise and helps to preserve rod varnish . |
| 17 | Each carbonate unit is characterised by the development of a shallow-marine platform around the edge of the basin ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 18 | The Asiatic spiny turtle ( left ) boasts a rim of sharp spikes around the edge of its shell , and the pancake tortoise ( bottom ) has an unusually flattened shell and body enabling it to slither to safety under low crevices . |
| 19 | Around the edge of this clearing , sheltered under the innermost wall , were huts . |
| 20 | Usually found around the edge of the forest close to open countryside , you are more likely to hear the loud laughing call of the green woodpecker than see it , as it is quite a shy bird . |
| 21 | The man screamed as the long tapering fingers and joints of a gauntlet-hand came around the edge , like the claws of a huge crab . |
| 22 | Cut off a narrow strip around the edge and use to line the dampened rim of the pie plate . |
| 23 | Place the lamb in a large casserole and arrange remaining garlic , the lemon chunks and herbs around the edge . |
| 24 | There were candles around the edge of it and an old aluminium bucket beside it . |
| 25 | He told us terrible tales of people being crushed in crowds , of school finances being wasted on unnecessary floor cleaning bills and of ‘ softies ’ who needed seats when there was a perfectly good floor to sit on ( all the teachers were sat on chairs around the edge of the sports hall at this point , but I do n't think they took it personally ) . |
| 26 | Leave cake to cool in the basin , then run a palette knife around the edge and down the side to loosen it . |
| 27 | Carefully reposition the bridge and press firmly until a small bead of glue appears around the edge . |
| 28 | Around the edge the ivoroid binding sports a fine reddish line matching part of the oakleaf epaulettes around the multiple mini sound holes which , love them or hate them , help give the 1992-H a distinctive appearance . |
| 29 | Continue every 25 cm around the edge of the ring using each of the different fabrics in turn ( illustration 4 ) . |
| 30 | He was out of the room before she could open the box , a dark blue leather affair , lined with white velvet , against which lay a fine gold chain with a small oval locket set around the edge with seed pearls . |