Example sentences of "on the line " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | My bloody heart and soul on the line and to you it 's a ‘ few kisses ’ — you lousy hypocrite ! |
| 2 | lumps of concrete had been found on the line in front of the first train |
| 3 | If you need to change angle to land on the line , you take two slight passes , the first either stopping with the wood still on the back table , or starting with it already on the front table , depending which way you want to tilt . |
| 4 | This scheme was relatively modest in comparison with many others such as the £7million scheme , for which contracts were this year placed to resignal fifty-six route miles from Cambridge to Royston , Bishop 's Stortford , Fulbourne ( on the line to Newmarket ) and to a point just south of Ely . |
| 5 | The classic example of the inequality faced by BR was at Dornoch on the line between Inverness and Wick/Thurso . |
| 6 | British Telecom will disconnect your phone at the exchange while you are away , so that callers will hear the discontinued number tone , suggesting that you 've changed the number , did n't pay the bill , or there 's a fault on the line — BT wo n't tell them . |
| 7 | David Hobbs kicked a penalty after Kelvin Skerrett was illegally halted , then when Skerrett was held on the line , Karl Fairbank and Hobbs kept the ball alive for Steve McGowan to give the visitors a 6-4 interval lead . |
| 8 | John Matthias brought the filly with a customary late surge to get up on the line to beat Zadracarta , the Canadian challenger , a head . |
| 9 | Sergeant Terry Lawton , of British Transport Police , said yesterday : ‘ The train was approaching and if all 450 runners had hurdled the barriers and any had fallen , there could have been a mass slaughter on the line . ’ |
| 10 | Bibbs ' effort was cancelled by Larder 's second try on the hour , Steadman managing to hit an upright with the kick from under the posts , and although Knapper was successful with two further penalties , David Plange tied the scores when Gary French squeezed a pass out of a tackle on the line 12 minutes from the end . |
| 11 | I took hold of the snow hook , but to release it meant hauling in some slack on the line . |
| 12 | Apparently , the tow given to old whalers by a harpooned whale was known as the ‘ Nantucket Sleighride ’ ; I haul back on the line , release the snow hook and take a similar ride . |
| 13 | Back on the line she goes and work continues . |
| 14 | If there are 38 of them on the line , 38 go together for ten minutes and then , of course , the line stops . |
| 15 | ‘ They 're out on the line . ’ |
| 16 | Werl is a small , quiet West German pilgrimage town on the line of the historic Bundestrasse One . |
| 17 | A pull on the line , and the bag is out of the hole , its contents spilled out into the road . |
| 18 | My day is over , but the soldiers on the line will continue to man observation posts and patrol throughout the night . |
| 19 | ‘ I know , ’ Erika shouted across the bedlam on the line . |
| 20 | Suddenly the cacophony broke out again on the line . |
| 21 | According to some theorists , that 's the only way men can let down their macho defences : in blood-letting , catastrophe , a suicidal willingness to put your life on the line . |
| 22 | Richie Denenberg reports Putting jobs on the line . |
| 23 | On that occasion he was three lengths clear at the last , but his injury allowed Golden Friend , who was receiving 19lb , to overhaul him on the line to win by a head . |
| 24 | On that occasion he was three lengths clear at the last , but his injury allowed Golden Friend , who was receiving 19lb , to overhaul him on the line to win by a head . |
| 25 | Mr Parkinson was delayed by a dense bank of fog ahead of him on the line — Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and Industry Secretary , making his statement about the Barlow Clowes affair . |
| 26 | The police press officer 's secretary was on the line : ‘ I 'm glad your are still there . |
| 27 | He knows now his job is on the line and he 's very nervous . ’ |
| 28 | We sat on a phone at Miami airport with a pile of quarters and a copy of the local Yellow Pages : ‘ Automobiles — Delivery and Drive-Away , ’ a couple of sheets of box ads and a user-friendly voice on the line . |
| 29 | He picked up his phone to find the Cambridgeshire sergeant to whom he had spoken the day before on the line . |
| 30 | On the line |