Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the line " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor Kitty , everyone said , when she did not conceive again ; thank goodness there 's a lesser Bainbridge to carry on the line . |
| 2 | And if all these should flicker out like candles , still his young , lusty brother Edmund , strong as a stag , and ripe for marriage , capable of getting more sons , more Mortimers to carry on the line and the claim to eternity . |
| 3 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 4 | And it 's an end to the client hanging on the line whilst a despatcher finds out how long that cab will be . |
| 5 | Novotna had looked well in control , always seeming to guess correctly whether Seles was going to hit down the line or cross-court . |
| 6 | Eric spat and choked down the line , and there followed the noise of the phone-box handset being smashed around the inside of the booth . |
| 7 | This identity of message was recognized down the line , and had the effect that one would have expected . |
| 8 | You mentioned that there 's a great degree of toughness since 1979 on Treasury targets and public expenditure , and the word goes down the line and there 's no argument . |
| 9 | As the car then goes down the line , past various work stations , all the components are fitted to the car in turn . |
| 10 | That was by that was by normal recruits but it still happens it , actually the the bullying goes down the line . |
| 11 | It goes down the line , all the way down the line . |
| 12 | Each girlfriend is blindfolded and led down the line , burying her nose in the chest of each man — who must keep quiet — and taking a sniff . |
| 13 | CAREERING DOWN THE LINE |
| 14 | He was bellowing down the line like a demented station announcer . |
| 15 | The familiar whisky-edged voice came bellowing down the line , and she grinned fondly . |
| 16 | It is difficult not to see in that agreement what has come to be called the ‘ cascade ’ model of curriculum development : materials are prepared centrally and passed down the line for the classroom functionaries to implement . |
| 17 | It will typically take several hours for the car to go down the line , hundreds of workers will be directly involved in fitting the various bits and pieces , and each will have a cycle time of perhaps 60 seconds to do their allotted task . |
| 18 | The current government must recognise that it can not continue to go down the line of an individualist anxiety- ridden state , of competitive individuals where the poor and disabled are left to starve on city streets . |
| 19 | Rangers went ahead when a superb ball from John Brown allowed David Robertson to go down the line on the left , and McCoist was on the spot to whip home the cross . |
| 20 | I do n't think it 's condoning , I just think it 's given the safe , giving out the safest options for people who maybe taking drugs and , and and maybe in , in maybe er sometimes thinking about injecting drugs , and er I think we actually have to be very clear on this epidemic , that , that there is no , no way for , for lack of clarity , we have to go down the line . |
| 21 | They are planning a 100 per cent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line . |
| 22 | One way would be to have a chemical whose concentration was fixed at one end of the line , and this concentration decreased as one moved down the line . |
| 23 | I think it was copied from Victoria , Victoria had a lot of influence upon women obviously , she had a lot of children ; women too , women , apart from the fact there was no effective contraception , it was the duty of woman to bear a lot of children so that they could carry on the line , which was also why woman had to be very chaste and pure so that man could be sure that the son that she produced was actually his legitimate heir . |
| 24 | He stood at the edge of the slope , looking down the line of his cordon and into the turgid water . |
| 25 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 26 | Straw — came rocketing down the line . |
| 27 | A groan of real sympathy came down the line . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's no mistake , Miss Stanley , ’ the girl 's voice came down the line . |
| 29 | A purr came down the line . |
| 30 | ‘ We need management devolved down the line to encourage greater understanding of the markets we serve , backed up by strong national teamwork across the markets and product ranges . ’ |