Example sentences of "[vb past] at the edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city rose at the edge of a green plain , nestling in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada , and as Mitch gasped Ana realised they had arrived . |
| 2 | Gulls and waders dabbled at the edge of the breakers , along strands of pale sand . |
| 3 | Shreds of rubber twisted and coiled at the edge of the highway . |
| 4 | Something moved at the edge of his vision , in the furthest , darkest corner of the dungeon . |
| 5 | Before tearing myself away , I stopped at the edge of the market beside the asparagus-seller . |
| 6 | They stopped at the edge of the sisal fields , turning to look back . |
| 7 | She stopped at the edge of a muddied pool lapping all the way across a back lane then leapt across to the other side . |
| 8 | A few yards further on he stopped at the edge of a grove of trees . |
| 9 | ‘ This is very good , ’ he said , as they stopped at the edge of the bare earth . |
| 10 | Defries knelt at the edge of the rough-hewn , irregularly-shaped hole . |
| 11 | He found at the edge of his consciousness the wish that he was just going to his own flat to crash out rather than back to share Catherine 's warm bed . |
| 12 | In that short interval we managed to grab a couple of milk crates and a door that we found at the edge of a building site . |
| 13 | Her conscious mind did n't even register it , nor the weeds of blue awareness that tangled at the edge of her mind . |
| 14 | Lord Voronov-Vaux followed bare-footed , adjusting a black robe on which dragons of seemingly purple hue writhed at the edge of visibility . |
| 15 | Eighteen days out of Edinburgh , they perched at the edge of the Hebrides . |
| 16 | He was not vain , but he was quietly proud of his literary achievements and that pride sometimes showed at the edges . |
| 17 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When she arrived at the edge of the covert , she made her way cautiously along its downhill fringes . |
| 20 | The sand began at the edge of the property . |
| 21 | The sensation augmented in roaring octaves of bitter power until she hung at the edge of being where something — some eternal truth — hung clear and untouchable as the luscious stars . |
| 22 | Then she took up the cloth , worked at the edge a moment and tore it neatly along the weave . |
| 23 | The ion trajectories are deflected and focused at the edges of the shadow cone much like rain falls off an umbrella , as shown in Fig. 1 . |
| 24 | She squatted at the edge of the dug soil , experiencing pleasure in her own body 's supple movement and the warmth of the sun on her skin , and looked along the rows of plants . |
| 25 | When the specimen was loaded in a testing machine the edges were stressed as much as the middle and so cracks started at the edges and spread inwards across the material in the usual way . |
| 26 | I clutched at the edge of the desk . |
| 27 | Ipuky sighed , flexing his hands as they lay at the edge of the table , and was silent for a long time . |
| 28 | Even when he was not thinking about it , it nagged at the edge of his awareness . |
| 29 | He danced in moonlit dells , shivered in thickets , pranced at the edge of the wood , grinned at travellers from the green of the bush . |
| 30 | She tripped , and tottered at the edge of the kerb . |