Example sentences of "on [prep] a [adj] line " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The beam carried on in a straight line , and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been . |
| 6 | If the paddler builds up speed and then stops paddling , the boat will drift on in a straight line . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It says right get on to a new line . |
| 9 | Pitman yanked him back on to a true line and managed to steer him clear of the rails , but the two hundred yards he had left to run seemed like two hundred miles , and Red Rum was now only five lengths back . |