Example sentences of "[verb] into the air " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fountain of stinking saltwater erupted into the air . |
| 2 | His hands rose into the air and clenched , as though he was wrestling a bullock by its horns . |
| 3 | Brought into perfect arcs by wind and snow , the younger birches littered the track-side like ribs and tusks while the old and brittle , unable to bow before the onslaught , rose into the air like splintered spines . |
| 4 | It started out as a little ripple in the sea then it became an enormous wave it rose into the air then smashed against the breaker , the breaker broke into two . |
| 5 | As the first curl of smoke rose into the air , the full enormity of what was happening came home to Sara . |
| 6 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
| 7 | By the time the plane rose into the air it was dark . |
| 8 | Tiny pieces of skin shrivelled and cooked on the red-hot ring and wisps of smoke rose into the air . |
| 9 | Immediately with a great flutter of wings the pigeons rose into the air and circled above the terrace . |
| 10 | Behind him there was a rumble as the great octagonal slab rose into the air , hung for a moment on one edge , and crashed down on the floor . |
| 11 | The presence of the two bishops , not to mention the priests and nuns , gave confidence to everybody as the plane rose into the air . |
| 12 | I sat in front of him watching as he ate , my eyes following his hand from the moment his fingers plunged into the bowl until it rose into the air , and carried the food into his mouth . |
| 13 | As he applied it to Putt 's body the sickening stench of burning flesh rose into the air and one of the gipsy men uttered a faint sound of revulsion . |
| 14 | It rose into the air and was dark against the moongleam through the clouds . |
| 15 | His long black scaled body rose into the air and fell upon the now swerving military vehicle . |
| 16 | A trickle of wax , a hiss of steaming ale , a molten wedge of congealed pots and pans , clots of silver , the black ash of canvas , a gout of feathers exploding into the air ; and an eerie ringing of reforged wheelrims , wagon arches and barrel rings . |
| 17 | That fact alone makes it clear that they must have been preceded into the air by other vegetarian forms which , judging from the primitive nature of their anatomy , were probably cockroaches , grasshoppers , locusts and crickets . |
| 18 | A classical defence and attack stance : the low body position allows the adept either to drop to the floor or leap into the air , depending on the given situation . |
| 19 | There is no crew as such because the Doom Diver effectively launches himself , although it is assumed that there are a number of Doom Divers ready and willing to step forward and be catapulted into the air . |
| 20 | As discussed above there are assumed to be a number of willing Doom Divers ready and waiting to step forward and be catapulted into the air . |
| 21 | Each Doom Diver Catapult is assumed to have an infinite supply of Doom Divers ready and waiting to be catapulted into the air . |
| 22 | Nor did the tide ebb once the horse was unsaddled : Jonjo O'Neill , having weighed in , hoisted the rejected Tony Mullins on to his shoulders , and the diminutive Mrs Hill was lifted into the air by the ecstatic mob . |
| 23 | Sacher 's car was lifted into the air by the violence of the explosion , its sides were torn off . |
| 24 | 4 The attacker is lifted into the air . |
| 25 | Therese 's pure golden voice lifted into the air , up into the chandelier , effortless , joyful . |
| 26 | One of the Moths now at Mandevelle has been on static display in a motor museum for years , and is now almost ready to leap into the air again ; an excellent idea . |
| 27 | It was almost under the mare 's hoofs when it saw fit to leap into the air and then dart away at speed . |
| 28 | ‘ It is correct , is it not , that your seigneur is vanished into the air . |
| 29 | The US Energy Department has acknowledged that , since the 1950s , substantial amounts of radioactive tritium gas have been emitted into the air and water from its nuclear weapons plant in Savannah River , South Carolina . |
| 30 | In April a restlessness seemed to come into the air as the village began to throw off the lethargy of winter . |