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Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] line " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The burrow caused by Sarcoptes scabiei can be recognized as a thin line , not unlike a small splinter , in one of the sites which the mite is known to favour .
2	Can the relationship be summarized as a straight line or will it need a curve ?
3	His mouth was compressed into a straight line and his brows were drawn together .
4	Her mouth was compressed into a tight line .
5	His mouth compressed into a hard line .
6	Montgomery made his own examination of the body , his mouth compressed into a thin line of concentration .
7	His lips were compressed into a thin line as he awaited some explanation .
8	Lips compressed into a thin line of tension , she strode along the corridor and into her office , wrinkling her nose at the musty smell of stale air .
9	They were like chips of blue ice , his lips compressed into a thin line .
10	She was white and her lips were compressed into a pale line .
11	He grinned at her , his fleshy lips curled into a knowing line , and Fran felt the first stirrings of anger damp down on the fear .
12	Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace .
13	Her face cracked in a thousand lines when she smiled .
14	The new colonial minister , E.M.J.A. Sassen , was committed to a tough line .
15	In the thirteenth century , the technical quality of the fabric was uniformly good , a well-fired reddish-brown colour , but the gradual impoverishment of the designs continued : the octopus was simplified to a wavy line encircling a vase .
16	The mines would be confined to a narrow line of dunes which separate Lake St Lucia from the sea , but would still cause irreparable damage to the wetland as a whole , ecologists believe .
17	If you so much as parked on a yellow line they stuffed a mortgage application under your windscreen wipers .
18	Even if you 're not parked on a yellow line , the police can imagine you 're travelling at forty when you 're just doing thirty and so on .
19	The vehicle was parked on a yellow line and so close to the Market Street junction that vehicles emerging from that road had to swing out onto the wrong side of the High Street .
20	The Vicar 's wife , who had parked on a yellow line while her gay husband went into the shop to get a treacle tart , got such a shock when Wayne stuck his big , hairy white face in through the window that she jumped out and ran away .
21	And I 'm parked on a yellow line , and it 's raining — and I 'm Elinor Browne , with an ‘ E ’ , ’ she concluded in a little rush .
22	At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond .
23	You also spot that the paragraph ends are marked with a little bent arrow , and that each paragraph is preceded by a short line .
24	The British leaned towards a middle line whereby Japan would be tied to the West but not in such a way as to stimulate aggressive tendencies .
25	Finally , if the worst happened , Spain was seen as a last line of continental defence .
26	His mouth twisted into a grim line as he admitted , ‘ You 've been a marvel about the place , and I appreciate it .
27	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 .
28	After a period at the Tramway Museum , it was transferred to a working line in Manchester 's Heaton Park in 1979 , and repainted in full Company livery .
29	He gazed down at her , his lips thinned to a narrow line .
30	It also means that you will very often have to use a heavier indicator because of the increased drag imposed on a thicker line in windswept water .