Example sentences of "[adv prt] in a [adj] line " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat looking at me , his mouth turned down in a bitter line . |
| 2 | The-other four Goshawk aircraft came down in an angled line which allowed each gun to rake the target from nose to tail in a continuous devastation of bullets . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Two lanes north and two lanes south cars poured through in an unbroken line ; container trucks , like cliffsides on the move , whammed into each other 's slipstream . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Wilcox set off in a straight line , indifferent to the snow that covered his thin black shoes and clung to his trouser bottoms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At one gig in Melbourne the crowd invaded the stage in such numbers that LIAM had to stop the show and lead the uninvited participants off in an orderly line . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Outside in the war-torn street , Special Forces vehicles drew up in an uncompromising line . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | And it ran on , beyond the perimeter of the chamber , on and on in a straight line for hundreds of metres , for kilometres , dwindling in the distance to a taut thread against darkness but still stretching away . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The beam carried on in a straight line , and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been . |
| 16 | If the paddler builds up speed and then stops paddling , the boat will drift on in a straight line . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Her clothes , lying across the back of the bedroom chair , spread out in a black line towards the door . |
| 19 | ( b ) then thrust your foot out in a straight line |
| 20 | She set all the animals out in a long line , headed by the lions ; a circus parade carved from wood and delicately coloured . |
| 21 | Stringing themselves out in a ragged line , a scout-masterish type at the head , they set off down the valley . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Our traditional attractions include the beginnings of the white cliffs of Dover , historic monuments such as the landing places of St. Augustine and Julius Caesar , and the medieval cinque port of Sandwich , whose parliamentary representation stretches back in an unbroken line to the days of Simon de Montfort . |