Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the air " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sucked out the air in her head and her lungs , and she twisted her head sharply , snatching breath from the folds of her cloak . |
| 2 | She could have added : ‘ least of all with you ’ and it seemed to her that the words , unspoken , hung on the air between them . |
| 3 | Silence hung on the air , and when he turned back he saw that Suragai was still watching as if he did not understand what had occurred . |
| 4 | The same smell of stale tobacco hung on the air that she recalled from her only meeting with Tatyana Nowak the day before her suicide . |
| 5 | A chilling smell of antiseptic hung on the air . |
| 6 | Tristan was not in the sitting room but a haze of smoke hung on the air and a reek like a garden bonfire prickled in my nostrils . |
| 7 | The smell of freshly-fried falafels hung on the air , reminding Huy that he had not yet breakfasted . |
| 8 | But he thought better of it and slowly breathed out the air through his nose . |
| 9 | Yet a soporific stillness hung about the air , as though the dusty dry land was still enjoying a siesta . |
| 10 | They were regarded as betrothed , but while Judith regularly took on the air of proprietorship , Andrew never seemed to be much interested . |
| 11 | Last summer , the place took on the air of a cheap seance , with ringing bells and flickering lights . |
| 12 | By this time his fantasies took on the air of medieval barons ' wars . |
| 13 | Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club ! |
| 14 | In the yew trees nearby , birds sang and the hum of traffic and smell of exhaust fumes carried on the air . |
| 15 | As an infection carried on the air and in milk , diphtheria was not much affected by changes in living standards . |
| 16 | Nell pumped up the air , constricting the blood supply , then bled it out again , listening with her stethoscope for the returning pulse . |