Example sentences of "[vb base] the [num ord] line of " in BNC.

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1 He also cut the last line of the final song , ‘ Rest till the rosy morn 's uprise ’ , leaving the Fairy Queen herself at the centre of a choral lullaby .
2 The warriors , their spears resting on their shoulders , take very small steps and chant in time , breathy snorts — ‘ Hooh , hooh , hooh ’ — as they circle the girls and pass the second line of warriors , moving in the opposite direction .
3 I think the second line of the new song is ' Brian Deane , Brian Deane , Fergie 's in a sweat' , but what our Deano does in the first line to put old Taggart-face in that state is anybody 's guess .
4 Do the first lines of this fragment contribute to answering the question asked ?
5 You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty .
6 Macrophages are crucial cells in the immune and inflammatory events ongoing in the intestinal musoca ; being scattered just beneath the epithelium , they represent the first line of defence .
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