Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] the line " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 2 | And it 's an end to the client hanging on the line whilst a despatcher finds out how long that cab will be . |
| 3 | CAREERING DOWN THE LINE |
| 4 | He was bellowing down the line like a demented station announcer . |
| 5 | The familiar whisky-edged voice came bellowing down the line , and she grinned fondly . |
| 6 | He stood at the edge of the slope , looking down the line of his cordon and into the turgid water . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Straw — came rocketing down the line . |
| 9 | They had granted her permission to move tents once she 'd heard that an unconscious soldier named Trumper was lying down the line . |
| 10 | He rejected the customary function of wingers of going down the line and crossing the ball . |
| 11 | Throwing it open , he lifted out a sinewy and almost reptilian form , holding it aloft and going down the line of young men , offering it briefly to each in turn . |
| 12 | Some basses are a little better than others , but the truth is that by turning up the line level you can make it sound like anything you want . |
| 13 | That the program-crunching is done for him by people in Breslau , Poland , who re-transmit the results back to his office in Invernessshire for checking before sending down the line to his customer in the Thames Valley , shows that the supposed imperfections of two apparently notorious national telephone systems in fact present no real obstacle . |
| 14 | The poet appears at first to be unable to utter his thoughts clearly ; he circles wildly , stumbling from one half-finished sentence into another , and breaking up the lines awkwardly ( 1 , 2 , 6 , 9 ) . |
| 15 | The priority for those of us who live along and use the north Kent line is that line itself , and the £1 billion saved on the project would go a devil of a long way to sorting out the line . |
| 16 | However , the sort of routine farces and imitations of earlier successes being handled by British Lion were hardly a match for spectacular films like El Cid ( 1961 ) , Dr No ( 1962 ) , The Longest Day ( 1962 ) and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) that were now coming down the line from American companies , with a ‘ British ’ tag on them . |
| 17 | In the Kensington exchange a group of Telecom engineers and police officers stared at the monitors and listened to the rage coming down the line ; at Cork Street , beneath the pavements of smart Mayfair , four men from MI5 were rooted in their chairs , motionless as the anger poured out of the speaker into the room and the tape-deck wound silently round and round . |
| 18 | Not , says UI , to kowtow to any kind of preconditions SunSoft wants UI to meet for the firm to close on the desktop issue , but simply that USL does n't have resources to do all the development work coming down the line . |
| 19 | In the face of recent doubts surrounding Intel 's future plans for its i860 RISC , Du Pont says it is now under non-disclosure for a new iteration coming down the line — though there 's no hint of silicon just yet . |
| 20 | Gavers , naturally checking on his fellow lensmen , added : ‘ The camera work was superb , especially the one running down the line on the rails . |
| 21 | Dr Ali was scurrying along beside him and from time to time glaring down the line of boys . |
| 22 | There is no pronounced tug of any kind , just a tremor coming up the line that feels as though someone is drawing a hacksaw blade across it . |
| 23 | If the line is even , and your position is not critical , treat it as if it were starboard biased : that is , if you want to continue on starboard tack , join the bunch reaching down the line quite early . |
| 24 | Open the slam-shell door and climb aboard : even the smell of brand-new airliners rolling down the lines at the gigantic Clément Ader factory in Toulouse is duplicated . |
| 25 | Shaking up the lines of control |
| 26 | I 've got a million people screaming down the line for you . |
| 27 | Setting up the Lines ( Figs 45 to 48 ) |
| 28 | Obviously , you can try hitting down the lines or cross-court , but keep up the quality of the rallies by maintaining speed and weight of shot . |
| 29 | She could almost feel him smiling down the line . |
| 30 | Then pinch a small shot on the line at the other end to stop the slug from sliding up the line . |