Example sentences of "the very edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | New stations opened during 1983 included Pinhoe ( Devon ) on the very edge of the L&SE boundary , Templecombe , and Dalston Kingsland on the Camden Road-North Woolwich Cross Town Link line . |
| 2 | He is Deputy Prime Minister , but yesterday sat on the very edge of the platform group . |
| 3 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 4 | She had been on the very edge of the steep hills which surround the basin in which Orvieto sits ; and the basin itself was alive and moving , swirling with smoke , with smoky white mists which filled it almost to the brim . |
| 5 | He sat down again on the very edge of the chair and they drank the tea in silence . |
| 6 | Or like the boulder , poised precariously on the very edge of a cliff so that the slightest puff of wind will bring it crashing down . |
| 7 | Norwood is now a fairly grubby inner London area , but when Camille Pissarro lived there in 1870 it was the very edge of the city , combining townscape and country in a way that Pissarro found particularly attractive ( he lived and worked on the outskirts of Paris for most of his career ) . |
| 8 | Pissarro 's vision of a snow-covered Fox Hill , Upper Norwood , shows a place on the very edge of the country . |
| 9 | Since the Club is , literally , on the very edge of the wide beach , from the very moment of waking in the morning you are on the spot for that pre-breakfast swim , the windsurfing lesson , a ‘ cruise ’ on a pedalo or a mini yacht , or a walk along the beach of white shells and sand to either the resort of M'Diq or Smir Restinga . |
| 10 | He wanted very much to walk out onto a pier — those constructions built so that people who have come to the sea to get away from their place of work can , for a moment , almost leave their working life behind , can go to the very edge of their week 's holiday and then dream of going further . |
| 11 | Finally , each bus made a three-point turn in a cloud of dusty exhaust , and off we went ; 300km to Maun , on the very edge of the Okavango Swamps . |
| 12 | I wanted to drive her to the very edge of despair . |
| 13 | I went to the very edge and walked along it like a tightrope . |
| 14 | There were hoof-marks of horses , and once or twice the slots of deer , and out on the very edge where the track was worst a narrow winding verge where travellers on foot had been forced to push their way through the undergrowth . |
| 15 | He had crept to the very edge of the wood to watch it and while he was there had heard the faint sound of hooves on stones and occasional voices . |
| 16 | From the caravan on the very edge of the sea he could see Larksoken Power Station stark against the skyline , as uncompromising as his own will to oppose it , a symbol and a threat . |
| 17 | He urged his horse forward to the very edge of the moat , for he had not so loud a voice as his nephew . |
| 18 | When the edge of the knitting flat , steam it to set it ; if it 's wool you can even press it — just the very edge , not the whole rib . |
| 19 | And in yet another jiffy he was standing on the very edge of the great big dark Forest of Sin ! |
| 20 | And so , in the early years of the nineteenth century American sailors set out in contest , the seaward extension of those landlubbers who , to use John L. O'Sullivan 's famous phrase of 1845 , sought their ‘ manifest destiny ’ on land by expanding ever westward , to the very edge of the continental United States . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Oriel windows projected over a void which fell away forever to the very edge of the universe itself , if such an edge existed . |
| 23 | Llanddeiniolen is situated on the very edge of Snowdonia National Park and here the more energetic will find numerous walks taking in the mountainous scenery . |
| 24 | Charles Briant had spoken in his fine voice that carried to the very edge of the crowd , telling the people of Swansea how talented and gifted was Angharad Morgan . |
| 25 | Two huge eggs , greenish-brown like the sedge , with a matt surface mottled like moss , lay in a shallow depression on the very edge of the loch , with a distinct sloping runway leading to the water , so that when alarmed the bird could slide invisibly off the eggs into a deep dive , to surface many yards away from its well-camouflaged home . |
| 26 | He was perched precariously on the very edge of the precipice waiting for puffins to fly past , and when one came within reach he swung his long-handled fleygastong ( which is like a landing-net on the end of a four-metre pole ) to intercept the bird . |
| 27 | Sandaway stands on a low cliff at the very edge of the ocean with breathtaking sea views . |
| 28 | He had been unopposed at Bewdley , but his two principal colleagues , the Chamberlain brothers , found their majorities uncomfortably reduced , Neville 's to the very edge of defeat . |
| 29 | In Britain , at the very edge of its breeding range , it is living under less than optimum conditions . |
| 30 | It was not until he was standing on the very edge that he saw Signor Fixit . |