Example sentences of "to the [adj] edge of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He obliged by hitting a vast drive about fifty yards beyond Harley 's , who then got his second shot just on to the front edge of the green and about forty feet from the flag . |
| 2 | With some wariness I lowered myself on to the front edge of his couch , while form one side more flunkeys appeared , guiding a hover-table laden with delicacies and fancy drinks . |
| 3 | Attach the remaining side of touch-and-close fastener to the front edge of the batten with steel tacks or along the top back edge of batten if fitting outside a reveal . |
| 4 | Lucien stood up and walked to the front edge of the roof . |
| 5 | Lucien walked to the front edge of the roof again , looked down into the street . |
| 6 | The grain was ground between the faces of the stones which came to be grooved to give a better cutting action , and the ground meal was distributed to the outside edge of the stones for collection . |
| 7 | When applying any tape , always position the free ends of the draw cords , which are used to pull up the heading , to the outside edge of the curtain ( i.e. , the edge furthest away from the centre ) . |
| 8 | Trim the tape to 1cm ( ⅜in ) , turn under then pin and tack it to the outside edge of the curtain . |
| 9 | But as she kept to the inside edge of the footpath to avoid being splashed by the congestion of horse-drawn vehicles her gaze turned to the heart of the city , and all at once her spirits lifted . |
| 10 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 11 | " Regarde , Joseph , " said the French boy suddenly reining in his pony beside him and pointing to the far edge of the plain that they were crossing . |
| 12 | Dora retrieved her ball without a glance in their direction and marched to the far edge of the green . |
| 13 | The completion of the jigsaw established an inn clinging precariously to the far edge of the moor . |
| 14 | With the other thumb pad make tiny circles from the top of the arch to the inner edge of the heel . |
| 15 | At the moment they 're leading by three goals to two as now plays it away to this right hand side to Stewart , makes a charge forward , he 's taking on Chris , he 's getting to the right edge of the penalty area , he crosses low with his right boot , chance for in the area , he turned quickly on it but he blasted the t the shot over the top of the bar . |
| 16 | The wings are trimmed along the outer edges with fringes of white drawn thread attached to the outer edge of the wing shell . |
| 17 | The two innermost satellites are close to the outer edge of a system of tiny particles that constitute a ring around Jupiter . |
| 18 | Join this point diagonally up to the outer edges of tab . |
| 19 | Finish the semi-circle with a strip of hardboard nailed to the outer edges of the plywood arch . |
| 20 | Join the widths with a plain seam , placing any part widths to the outer edges of the curtains . |
| 21 | Sutton Lane wound from the hamlet of Little Sutton , southward to Sutton Manor Court and northward to the western edge of Turnham Green , immediately opposite to the old Pack Horse Lane which was the turning running north from that side of the Brentford Road along side the tavern called ‘ The Pack Horse ’ . |
| 22 | From the northern tip of Spain across to the Western edge of Italy , this magical coast boasts mile upon mile of golden sand lapped by clear warm seas . |
| 23 | Place any half or part widths to the other edges of the curtain , when making a pair so that you have a left and a right hand curtain . |
| 24 | Here , a recently polished elm coffin sits on padded woodworking trestles ; it is in the process of having its chevroned starched linen fringe gimped to the upper edge of the inner lining , a length of which hangs outside the coffin awaiting turning-in , the lid having been temporarily replaced for the purpose of photography . |
| 25 | The flow rotates from uniformly northwestwards to northwards close to the poleward edge of the cusp . |
| 26 | When 5 Corps had first been informed by Gen Schmidt-Richberg of the approach of 600,000 Germans and Croats to the southern edge of the Corps area on the evening of 13 May , it had been assumed that this huge mass of fugitives was on the verge of entering Austria and that it would be difficult to prevent all of them from doing so . |
| 27 | He wanted very much to walk out onto a pier — those constructions built so that people who have come to the sea to get away from their place of work can , for a moment , almost leave their working life behind , can go to the very edge of their week 's holiday and then dream of going further . |
| 28 | I wanted to drive her to the very edge of despair . |
| 29 | He had crept to the very edge of the wood to watch it and while he was there had heard the faint sound of hooves on stones and occasional voices . |
| 30 | He urged his horse forward to the very edge of the moat , for he had not so loud a voice as his nephew . |