Example sentences of "at the very edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 2 | Within two days of leaving the warm winter of Hong Kong , I was standing shivering in the endless summer gales of the roaring forties on the shores of the Magellan Strait — if not obviously at the edge of any tectonic , plates , then certainly at the very edge of the world . |
| 3 | Sandaway stands on a low cliff at the very edge of the ocean with breathtaking sea views . |
| 4 | In Britain , at the very edge of its breeding range , it is living under less than optimum conditions . |
| 5 | They were standing together at the very edge of the platform on which the morning room was constructed . |
| 6 | She recalled Alain Gebrec 's warning that the edge was unstable in places ; panic threatened to take over ; she was on the point of abandoning the whole insane exercise when , almost at the very edge of the cliff , she spotted something that gleamed in the sun . |