Example sentences of "[vb past] off the edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stepped off the edge of the platform , onto the track . |
| 2 | The men fell back , or fell down in some cases , and Benny leapt off the edge of the dock just ahead of a swarm of angrily buzzing bullets . |
| 3 | Admittedly , in some of his loving characterisations of English life Orwell almost flew off the edge — ‘ the beer is bitterer , the coins are heavier , the grass is greener ’ — but even so , the decline of English civility under the impact of ‘ materialism ’ was not only George Orwell 's passion in the interwar years . |
| 4 | She stumbled off the edge of the concrete path , and immediately his flashlight was directed towards the ground and at the same time he pressed her arm more tightly into his side , and like this they walked on until they reached the wood , and there their steps slowed and quietly he asked , ‘ Where 's he gone tonight ? ’ |
| 5 | She slipped off the edge of the bed as if she had been injected with new life . |
| 6 | They might try to look like aeroplanes but at least there were still smart waiters serving drinks to tycoons as they shuffled papers where the noughts ran off the edge of the page building a case to be argued to some Washington agency the next day . |
| 7 | She slid off the edge of the bed . |