Example sentences of "[pers pn] surfaces " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'll make regular transmissions till eleven hundred hours then she 'll be doing a deep dive , so you 'll hear no more from her till she surfaces at fifteen hundred hours . |
| 2 | He surfaces in different places from time to time : there he is at St Mary 's church in Finchley , North London , witnessing the marriage of sister Bessie and Alf Davidge in 1907 , then appearing as if from nowhere to perform the same function for Gertie and Frederick Foxwell in Norwich in 1911 . |
| 3 | Soon he surfaces from a vat of hot tar , covered from head to foot ; the ‘ tar ’ was really food flavouring . |
| 4 | Having arranged for you to be standing by when he surfaces today , you take him shopping . |
| 5 | When the Telemine is 500 m from a target it surfaces completely , so the sensor pod on top is clear of the water . |
| 6 | Such a view is found in partial form in Calvin , and it surfaces again in the nineteenth century in the thought of both Edward Irving ( who was wrongly convicted for heresy for believing it ) and the great Anglican churchman , F. D. Maurice ( 1805–1872 ) . |
| 7 | It not only leaves a catalogue of unresolved hurts , it surfaces in an apprehensive and unrealistic way of coping with present difficulties . |
| 8 | A few more dives and it surfaces with a larger fish which , judging from its colour , is a sea-scorpion . |
| 9 | Its local Shetland name is ‘ neesick ’ , which means ‘ the sneezer ’ , referring to the explosive exhalation of breath it gives as it surfaces for air . |