Example sentences of "[adv prt] the line " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are planning a 100 per cent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line . |
| 2 | ‘ Well I Wonder ’ releases the eardrum pressure and hangs on the line ‘ Please , keep me in mind ’ complete with the synthetic rain of an outsider 's view of Manchester . |
| 3 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 4 | Poor Kitty , everyone said , when she did not conceive again ; thank goodness there 's a lesser Bainbridge to carry on the line . |
| 5 | And it 's an end to the client hanging on the line whilst a despatcher finds out how long that cab will be . |
| 6 | Washing hung on the line outside and their £10,000 car was in the drive . |
| 7 | Mother says if I do n't get a move on the line will die out . ’ |
| 8 | And if all these should flicker out like candles , still his young , lusty brother Edmund , strong as a stag , and ripe for marriage , capable of getting more sons , more Mortimers to carry on the line and the claim to eternity . |
| 9 | Okey-dokey well erm hang on the line and er we 'll get you all sorted . |
| 10 | Hang on the line do n't put the phone down and June from Mansfield sixty two gives you a list of prizes numbers between one and ten choose three of them . |
| 11 | Hang on the line we 'll sort you out with one of them , alright ? |
| 12 | Hang on the line we 'll sort you o , she 's getting all confused . |
| 13 | Hang on the line we 'll lob it all off to you , well done it was the farm at School . |
| 14 | you hang on the line and we 'll lob it all off to you . |
| 15 | I think it was copied from Victoria , Victoria had a lot of influence upon women obviously , she had a lot of children ; women too , women , apart from the fact there was no effective contraception , it was the duty of woman to bear a lot of children so that they could carry on the line , which was also why woman had to be very chaste and pure so that man could be sure that the son that she produced was actually his legitimate heir . |
| 16 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 17 | As traders fall over themselves to dump the pound , the wise grow wary that a bear trap may await them further down the line . |
| 18 | There was a time when five-star hotels were assumed to be better than four-star and so on down the line . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He indicated a window farther down the line . |
| 21 | ‘ Fire engine , ’ I said down the line , the harsh echo of the warning noise now reverberating in my brain . |
| 22 | He was bellowing down the line like a demented station announcer . |
| 23 | ‘ We want them to feel they can join us , hop off for a bit , and re-join further down the line . ’ |
| 24 | There is a commitment within the company to develop worker 's skills right down the line , and this has been done through training and education schemes . |
| 25 | I know I do n't need to tell you , but for the record , I will have to clear all this in Oxford and so we should n't get too far down the line . |
| 26 | Harley 's laugh bubbled down the line . |
| 27 | There is a package holiday that runs steam trains up and down the line during the summer , carrying rich tourists dressed in dinner-jackets and gowns , who scowl sternly from their carriage windows when the train is stranded at obscure little Scottish stations . |
| 28 | One way would be to have a chemical whose concentration was fixed at one end of the line , and this concentration decreased as one moved down the line . |
| 29 | The safer option is to start about fifteen per cent further down the line , thereby giving yourself a little more room . |
| 30 | I know you were only a junior minister , but one hears about things when one 's down the line , that he was very presidential , that he would n't let them talk much and was very stiff and frozen . |