Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] line " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 2 | The beam carried on in a straight line , and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been . |
| 3 | His reserve trundlers — usually in the mediocre medium-pace category and fully aware of the aggressive intentions of the batsmen — try to keep the ball on a full length and in ‘ the channel ’ which lies approximately in a straight line between the stumps . |
| 4 | ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen . |
| 5 | But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line . |
| 6 | The point of suspension is oscillated sinusoidally in a straight line ( the x-direction ) with an amplitude small compared with the pendulum length . |
| 7 | He sat looking at me , his mouth turned down in a bitter line . |
| 8 | It often consisted both of a main line and of branch families . |
| 9 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 10 | If you have a healthy respect for your opponent , you will thrust forwards on a diagonal line that takes you out of his centre-line , before twisting to face him square-on . |
| 11 | It says right get on to a new line . |
| 12 | It will slide on as a whole line , from the bottom right hand corner ( which will take 50 frames to complete ) stay still for 120 frames , and then scatter off randomly over a period of 30 frames . |
| 13 | Drifting along in a straight line at a steady speed , or following the natural curves of space if you 're close to any heavy objects . |
| 14 | Eventually it was just a dark dot way up in the shy , almost unrecognisable except for the distinctive flight pattern : it would glide round in a circle , then soar off in a straight line , helped along by the wind , and finally resume its circular flight again . |
| 15 | The arrow formation soon broke up into a ragged line , with Premiere on the outside , pampering on the inner and Upper Gumtree still just in front . |
| 16 | The main lawn and border shapes have been laid out in a flowing line that leads you through the garden , echoing the curve of the path . |
| 17 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 18 | If nothi if you , you do n't have an external force acting on something it just to remain stationary or , or carry on in a straight line and fixed speed , if . |
| 19 | The sense of great loyalty is apparent , and the waste of life as if the knights dying ‘ man by man ’ are dominoes being knocked over in a long line . |
| 20 | If you make sure the butt points at the target in the initial stages , and the tip follows through in a straight line , you will acquire both distance and accuracy after only a short period of practice . |
| 21 | While she was travelling this long roundabout route Jenny could get across in a straight line by the stepping-stones , all in a few minutes . |
| 22 | If the paddler builds up speed and then stops paddling , the boat will drift on in a straight line . |
| 23 | The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record . |
| 24 | In so doing it also crossed what the Swiss recognise as an ancient cultural frontier which in this part of the country runs not as a straight line but in a curve in clockwise direction , through the Brunig Pass , the centre of the highland massif known as the Napf , and the river Reuss which flows out from the Vierwaldstattersee at Luzern . |
| 25 | Wilcox set off in a straight line , indifferent to the snow that covered his thin black shoes and clung to his trouser bottoms . |
| 26 | Markby set out on a different line of approach . |
| 27 | And though Flaubert aggressively excised from ‘ La Paysanne ’ Mme Colet 's line about the running smoke on the horizon , this does n't debar from his own countryside ( Part Three , chapter four ) ‘ the smoke of a railway engine stretching out in a horizontal line , like a gigantic ostrich feather whose tip kept blowing away . ’ |
| 28 | Her clothes , lying across the back of the bedroom chair , spread out in a black line towards the door . |
| 29 | Long words wrapped around to a new line can spoil a document 's right-hand side . |