Example sentences of "come [adv prt] the line " in BNC.

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1 A groan of real sympathy came down the line .
2 ‘ There 's no mistake , Miss Stanley , ’ the girl 's voice came down the line .
3 A purr came down the line .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Since the objectives themselves are unreal and unclear , and since there are so many people at every level , multiple messages come down the line the whole time .
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