Example sentences of "slipped [prep] the edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slipped off the edge of the bed as if she had been injected with new life . |
| 2 | And before the nausea anaesthetised me , did I feel nostalgia , did I feel regret , did I feel the sense of something ending as the island slipped below the edge of the sea ? |
| 3 | He slipped from the edge nearest Nora as soon as the hounds entered at the farther side . |
| 4 | In his memoirs , Confessions of an Actor , Olivier relates that there was a conflict between his business , artistic and domestic life and admitted he ‘ slipped over the edge ’ in allowing the demands of his job to outweigh the importance of his family . |
| 5 | Allen sat for a moment on the parapet , Marian saw him smile at her , then he slipped over the edge and the rope grew taut on the hook . |
| 6 | The real reason Sinead slipped over the edge |
| 7 | Everything then became a kaleidoscopic array of sounds and feelings as they slipped over the edge of control . |