Example sentences of "at the edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golden lads and lasses had just breakfasted on golden toast , a little blackened at the edge in some cases , spread with golden shred or golden syrup . |
| 2 | They sat at the edge of the patio where vines trailed a dusky scent . |
| 3 | A quarter of an hour later he stood alone at the edge of the High Street with as little notion of his next steps as a soldier discharged in Madras with the whole of India , Arabia , and Africa lying between him and his homeland . |
| 4 | In order to protect the aluminium breather tape , and give a neat rigid finish at the edge of the sheets , cover the breather tape at the eaves with an aluminium ‘ U ’ channel |
| 5 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 6 | at the edge of the heavy woods |
| 7 | I went out for a walk , then picked blackberries on Periton Hill , in that far clump at the edge of the downs . |
| 8 | He stopped the jeep at the edge of the cornfield , and we observed that the mortar and shell fire were following the canisters as they were landing , leaving a few canisters lying on the ground not far off from where we were . |
| 9 | The eerie lights would hang in the air for quite some time then the mortars came over to burst at the edge of the wood . |
| 10 | The shells from the Allied guns were passing very low overhead and bursting at the edge of the wood in the German positions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then , picking up a rifle that had been give to me by the French Commandos , I joined the others , lining up in the darkness at the edge of the wood preparing to move off . |
| 13 | A bag of popcorn and a seat at the edge of the circle could attract more attention down below than Flash Gordon . |
| 14 | The acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic , the bottom strands of her curly hair . |
| 15 | At the edge there are usually secondary pools where hot water , up to 45 °C in some cases , will drain you away , assuming you can even get into the water . |
| 16 | Getting ashore is tricky , with the sea threatening to destroy the boats on the boulders at the edge . |
| 17 | From the moment the lead vehicles broke cover , they could see the enemy headquarters , halted at the edge of a wood . |
| 18 | The floor at the edge was stained a dark oak . |
| 19 | Seen now , these early British films still have a feeling of freshness and spontaneity that derives from the natural performances of non-actors , and a loose approach to framing which allows interesting material to get in at the edge of the picture . |
| 20 | The tops of the sapling trees , waist-high at the edge of the embankment , were leafless and still . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then he picked up a rock from the shallow water at the edge of the pool and threw it out into the middle , making a huge splash ; the rings of the splash spread nearly to the edge of the pool . |
| 23 | Philip crept through the trees at the edge of the ride . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ( Abrams was a young , bright , sharp lawyer , always well-tailored , and with an air of fierce aceticism ; he will reappear often in this story as a man trying to keep at the edge of it , and usually succeeding . |
| 26 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 27 | Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town , marring the views . |
| 28 | Gulls and waders dabbled at the edge of the breakers , along strands of pale sand . |
| 29 | Dundalk station , with its lovely garden , stood at the edge of town , close to the enormous Harp Lager brewery . |
| 30 | Unlike many orchestras , the Berliners , he suggested , do not play at the edge of their musical tolerance , hounded by fear , ‘ swallowing the notes ’ . |