Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [art] edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse stamped anxiously as stones were dislodged , but instinct kept him still and soon Felipe was beside Maggie , both of them pressed to the edge of the cliff . |
| 2 | When they got to the edge of the grass , Aziz turned and leered at Maisie and Robert . |
| 3 | The man with the baskets tried to kick a couple of scrawny hens out of his path and they fluttered towards the edge of the road . |
| 4 | They stopped at the edge of the sisal fields , turning to look back . |
| 5 | ‘ This is very good , ’ he said , as they stopped at the edge of the bare earth . |
| 6 | They came to the edge of the moors and turned down a steep track towards the beach . |
| 7 | They came from the edge of the desert , between Muscat and Salalah in Oman , hundreds of miles to the south . |
| 8 | Eighteen days out of Edinburgh , they perched at the edge of the Hebrides . |
| 9 | They arrived at the edge of the trees just in time to see Angel One advance to stand over the sprawled figure of Brett Grant . |
| 10 | They walked to the edge of town and shook hands . |
| 11 | They walked to the edge of the tranquil water where Christina wrapped her long , slim legs around him , and they made love with the warm Caribbean lapping over them . |
| 12 | They walked along the edge of the line , beneath the telegraph wires , to the station . |
| 13 | Ipuky sighed , flexing his hands as they lay at the edge of the table , and was silent for a long time . |
| 14 | Even as she watched they disappeared over the edge , leaving her in a watery isolation . |
| 15 | Everything then became a kaleidoscopic array of sounds and feelings as they slipped over the edge of control . |
| 16 | There was no foothold and Maggie gave a cry of fear as she too felt the ground give way beneath them as they slid over the edge towards the lake . |
| 17 | Twisting the knob to magnify the image of four ghostly white shapes amidst a field of darkly glowing emerald , Ace recognized the bulky figure of Mait and the whip-like form of Carrefour as they hurried along the edge of a sisal field . |
| 18 | They sat at the edge of the patio where vines trailed a dusky scent . |
| 19 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 20 | The antics of the vehicles with their solid , treadless tyres on the icy roads reminded an American observer of the irregular march of young elephants : ‘ Many of them slid over the edge , turning upside down , and others caught fire . ’ |