Semiovals with large collinear subsets

Asemioval in a projective plane is a setS of points such that for every pointP S, there exists a unique line of such thatS={P}. In other words, at every point ofS, there exists a unique tangent line.In this paper, we consider semiovals such that some line has a large intersection withS. In a finite plane it is shown that no semioval can contain a full line, and that apart from two small cases, no semioval can contain all but one point of some line. We then consider semiovals which contain all but two points of some line, providing some examples and characterizations.