Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] the line " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother says if I do n't get a move on the line will die out . ’ |
| 2 | Secondly , the planning of a new town-laying out the lines of streets , lanes , markets , churches and house-plots over a considerable area — required , after all , the investment of a large amount of capital , and a greater degree of economic optimism than most landowners could contemplate . |
| 3 | A year down the line Pitcher , who after all is chief executive , feels unable to confirm if van Geest is officially permanent or not . |
| 4 | So although erm , current rates of unemployment are very high , you may be prepared to erm , to , to accept unemployment in the short term , you know , because a year down the line , you may well be able to get employment . |
| 5 | Current levels of unemployment are relatively unimportant , hopefully some time down the line they will expect to get er as a relatively well paid job erm because agricultural incomes are so very low , you know , and urban incomes are relatively , relatively high , they may be prepared to wait for you know five or six years in the urban area , making what could be sort of a subsistence wage , simply because that 's all that they 're gon na be on anyway if they stay in the rural area , so if there is a higher probability of them getting a well paid job merely by being in the urban area making these contacts then they might as well move to the , to the urban area in the hope of some time in the future obtaining that er er an urban job . |