Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] the edge " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got on the edge of the road I said to them , ‘ Who 's winning ? ’ |
| 2 | I peered over the edge . |
| 3 | Before tearing myself away , I stopped at the edge of the market beside the asparagus-seller . |
| 4 | As I drove along the edge of the lake eastwards , I was hardly conscious of the beautiful and placid scenery . |
| 5 | I noticed round the edge of the hall a few other people were hovering , and wondered who they were . |
| 6 | Gripping the ski-poles I tried to keep myself steady as the velocity increased and then , all of a sudden I sailed over the edge and felt myself going head over heels towards a white mass of snow far below . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I perched on the edge of his desk . |
| 9 | It was a very cold frosty night in December , and because the snow on the footpath was hard and uneven , and as slippery as ice , I walked along the edge of the road . |
| 10 | And where this path ended , at the hedge of rosemary bushes , I walked along the edge of the vineyard where the vines , their branches outstretched to one another , appeared frozen in a formal dance . |
| 11 | I walked along the edge , then up to a small sand-covered hill . |
| 12 | I stumbled from the edge and backed away straight into Nour . |
| 13 | Yet I milled around the edge of the crowd at the demonstration feeling completely detached . |
| 14 | I clutched at the edge of the desk . |
| 15 | But when I looked over the edge there was no sign of him , or of the river — only the mist swirling . |
| 16 | Without thinking , I went to the edge of the quay . |
| 17 | I hovered on the edge of consciousness , semi-asleep , making nonsense . |
| 18 | I sat on the edge of the bed and wrote him a letter in my mind : |
| 19 | I sat on the edge of the bed and felt the earth rolling . |
| 20 | I sat on the edge of a chair . |
| 21 | I sat on the edge of the area all the morning until a solution was found . |
| 22 | That night , as I sat on the edge of my bed , contemplating the tatter of pop posters sellotaped to the flower-patterned wallpaper of my bedroom , I found myself shaking . |
| 23 | For a while I sat on the edge of the bed until Benjamin joined me . |
| 24 | I sat on the edge of Simon 's desk as there were no chairs . |
| 25 | I stood at the edge of a circle of standing stones , each eight to ten foot high , with a massive central stone which leaned at a perilous angle . |
| 26 | I jumped to the edge of the cage , the man told me ‘ do n't look down or you 'll spoil it for yourself ’ . |