Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] line " in BNC.
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| 1 | The burrow caused by Sarcoptes scabiei can be recognized as a thin line , not unlike a small splinter , in one of the sites which the mite is known to favour . |
| 2 | Tranmere looked most likely to earn the draw their approach was designed to secure as a bottom line when defender Richard Smith put his first foot wrong of the afternoon in the 82nd minute . |
| 3 | ( c ) On what chart does the rhumb line appear as a straight line ? |
| 4 | Can the relationship be summarized as a straight line or will it need a curve ? |
| 5 | His mouth was compressed into a straight line and his brows were drawn together . |
| 6 | Her mouth was compressed into a tight line . |
| 7 | His mouth compressed into a hard line . |
| 8 | Montgomery made his own examination of the body , his mouth compressed into a thin line of concentration . |
| 9 | His lips were compressed into a thin line as he awaited some explanation . |
| 10 | Lips compressed into a thin line of tension , she strode along the corridor and into her office , wrinkling her nose at the musty smell of stale air . |
| 11 | They were like chips of blue ice , his lips compressed into a thin line . |
| 12 | She was white and her lips were compressed into a pale line . |
| 13 | He grinned at her , his fleshy lips curled into a knowing line , and Fran felt the first stirrings of anger damp down on the fear . |
| 14 | You could do it even better if you want with a straight line , if it 's stretch the scales to infinity . |
| 15 | Polybius concludes with a Homeric line which he would never have used for Rome , however suitable the adaptation might have been : " To Egypt is a long and dangerous road " ( Odys. 4.483 ) . |
| 16 | Try to keep your dog walking in a straight line , so that it does not pull across you to reach another dog , because otherwise you might trip over the leash . |
| 17 | She realized that she was n't walking in a straight line and was unsteady on her feet . |
| 18 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 19 | It lies in a direct line with Theta ( 3.7 ) and Epsilon , and there is a sixth-magnitude star close beside it . |
| 20 | So look at the pattern , count the maximum number of marked squares occurring in a vertical line and then double that to calculate the effect of the double-length light . |
| 21 | It did not appear to be caused by needle or pusher , because it was not happening in a regular line — just spasmodically . |
| 22 | Swan glided round and headed in a straight line towards the edge of the forest , and of course the vast cloud of smoke came hurtling after it . |
| 23 | ‘ So you 're saying the beetle did keep driving in a straight line — a straight line as far as he was concerned — in his two dimensions , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 24 | The new colonial minister , E.M.J.A. Sassen , was committed to a tough line . |
| 25 | ‘ We 'll tow on a short line , ’ Titch said . |
| 26 | In the thirteenth century , the technical quality of the fabric was uniformly good , a well-fired reddish-brown colour , but the gradual impoverishment of the designs continued : the octopus was simplified to a wavy line encircling a vase . |
| 27 | The mines would be confined to a narrow line of dunes which separate Lake St Lucia from the sea , but would still cause irreparable damage to the wetland as a whole , ecologists believe . |
| 28 | The town lies on a direct line from Stonehenge that passes straight through Ox ford , and this seems to confirm that Stamford was the Taurean astrological figure in this system . |
| 29 | If you so much as parked on a yellow line they stuffed a mortgage application under your windscreen wipers . |
| 30 | Even if you 're not parked on a yellow line , the police can imagine you 're travelling at forty when you 're just doing thirty and so on . |