| He was a street fighter whose attraction to violence bordered on the pathological. |
| Such was the difference in class that All Stars stroked the ball around with a nonchalance that sometimes bordered on the arrogant. |
| Their trainers crunched against loose stones as they ran down a narrow dirt alley, bordered by high wooden fencing. |
| It was a smallish expanse of grassland bordered by hedges the horses could easily jump if they were so inclined. |
| Outside, most of the grounds are grassland, bordered to the south by a burn with the gardens mainly lawn. |
| The advice given to those affected by the potato blight bordered on the absurd. |
