Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] [art] line " in BNC.

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1 up and down every line .
2 There is a package holiday that runs steam trains up and down the line during the summer , carrying rich tourists dressed in dinner-jackets and gowns , who scowl sternly from their carriage windows when the train is stranded at obscure little Scottish stations .
3 They passed their viewing comments up and down the line .
4 Inevitably the column became grievously extended , and Ramsay and others of the leadership were occupied throughout in riding up and down the line trying to keep the various groups together and in touch .
5 ‘ Someone help Caroline , please , ’ Miss Fazackerly cried , rushing up and down the line of children like a sheep dog .
6 He looked up and down the line of faces .
7 Two buskers were playing banjos , walking up and down the line , while a dwarf scampered in and out of the waiting cinema-goers with an outstretched hand , cajoling money from the queue .
8 The most important item lacking was a turntable , which was needed so that Bishop 's Castle locomotives could work chimney first both up and down the line — an important safety consideration for passenger traffic as the engines would have been likely to run more steadily when going forward .
9 Since then she had followed Goshawk Squadron up and down the line , moving from hospital to hospital .
10 The consignment in Huey' safe has to be moved out and down the line .
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