Example sentences of "[verb] in a [adj] line " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She realized that she was n't walking in a straight line and was unsteady on her feet . |
| 3 | It lies in a direct line with Theta ( 3.7 ) and Epsilon , and there is a sixth-magnitude star close beside it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It did not appear to be caused by needle or pusher , because it was not happening in a regular line — just spasmodically . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | The prospect of an EC including Scandinavia and even Eastern Europe , has persuaded countries like France , which once argued that the Twelve should advance in a straight line , to accept a new geometry . |
| 9 | The lion 's share of the braking is done in a straight line but the time comes when the rider must set in motion the chain of events which will take him through the corner . |
| 10 | Her face was set in grim lines and beneath her make , she was white with rage , her lips drawn in a thin line . |
| 11 | He did n't keep going in a straight line . |
| 12 | Enough to curve it right back on itself so an astronaut going in a straight line would land back where he started ? ’ |
| 13 | So they must have thought they were still going in a straight line heading for the bullseye . |
| 14 | The hard part of that is something going in a straight line , and the same speed has no force , no resultant forces acting on it . |
| 15 | They seemed to sell everything from bolts of brightly coloured , imported cloth for making sarongs or Mother Hubbards — the island dress that hangs in a straight line from shoulder to ankle — to penknives and a large assortment of tools ranging from chisels to axes , from fishing lines and hooks to pots and pans . |
| 16 | For example , perceptual predicates that can be procedurally defined include the following spatial descriptions : x is higher than y ; the distance from x toy is zero ; x is in front of the moving object y ; y is between x and z ; x has boundary y ; x is convex ; x is changing shape ; x has the exterior surface y ; x is included spatially in y ; x , y , and z lie in a straight line ; x travels along the path p . |
| 17 | However , there are a number of post-war schools of thought which lie in a direct line of descent and which continue a distinctive democratic elitist pattern of argument . |
| 18 | Three points lying in a straight line were stimulated in quick succession and the subject 's task was to indicate from among four alternatives the orientation of the line in which the stimuli had been presented . |
| 19 | She walked in a straight line . |
| 20 | I set her down on her usual perch and slowly walked in a straight line to the far perch , some ninety feet away . |
| 21 | old Army General , line up and get in a single line |
| 22 | They then progressed to half-pass ; coming up the centre line and then performing half-pass towards E. Jennie told Katharine to keep her inside leg on the girth , as the horse should bend in the direction of the movement , as opposed to leg-yielding where the horse keeps in a straight line . |
| 23 | Then thrust your kicking foot until it travels in a straight line . |
| 24 | You will simply move in a straight line from the front of the building through check-in , security and passport control to the departure lounge at the back . |
| 25 | First its propeller blade broke off after it hit a rock , then it got caught in currents so strong it could n't move in a straight line . |
| 26 | As you improve , instead of riding in a straight line along a wave you start manoeuvring by footsteering on the wave just as surfers do . |
| 27 | That it goes on moving in a straight line , rather than in circles , followed from what Descartes described as the immutability and simplicity of the conserving operation . |
| 28 | There is , true enough , no bank to poke into — get round the first headland and the next bank is the shore of Svalbard — but it would still be a good idea to be able to go in a straight line . |
| 29 | I 'm trying to go in a straight line but I keep ending up where I began . |
| 30 | ( 4 ) Branchial openings arranged in a slanting line ( suggesting a separation of pharynx from oesophagus as in modern lampreys ) . |