Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down the line " in BNC.

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1 However , the sort of routine farces and imitations of earlier successes being handled by British Lion were hardly a match for spectacular films like El Cid ( 1961 ) , Dr No ( 1962 ) , The Longest Day ( 1962 ) and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) that were now coming down the line from American companies , with a ‘ British ’ tag on them .
2 As the car then goes down the line , past various work stations , all the components are fitted to the car in turn .
3 This led , they argue , to a situation where decisions were made by the elite at the top of the management hierarchy and then fed down the line of command .
4 McNeil , anxious to snatch victory before a suspension gave Wood a chance to recover , broke serve to love , hitting a perfect backhand return down the line on match point .
5 Annual formal reviews of performance of the l4 Regional Health Authorities ( RHAs ) by ministers and the DHSS began in 1982 , and subsequently extended down the line , with RHA reviews of DHAs and DHA reviews of unit managers .
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