Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at the edges " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained .
2 The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’
3 twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful .
4 He filled it : huge , almost squared off at the edges .
5 She was frowning , deep lines appearing between her eyebrows , mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties , she looked faded , years older than her real age , and shrewish .
6 It was as if the hunt for Lucy Ashdown had spread to take over his world from one horizon to the other and everything else , every essential concern and unanswered question , had been crowded out at the edges .
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