Example sentences of "[vb past] on [art] air " in BNC.

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1 She could have added : ‘ least of all with you ’ and it seemed to her that the words , unspoken , hung on the air between them .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 A chilling smell of antiseptic hung on the air .
5 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 .
6 The smell of freshly-fried falafels hung on the air , reminding Huy that he had not yet breakfasted .
7 He was of medium height , with dark hair and handsome expressive features which later took on an air of rather gloomy abstraction .
8 He leered at her , then almost immediately his face took on an air of concern .
9 Her eyes widened as she took on an air of great sadness .
10 But as Sara White discovered , the re-enactment took on an air of reality with some twenty-five soldiers injured and seven taken to hospital .
11 They were regarded as betrothed , but while Judith regularly took on the air of proprietorship , Andrew never seemed to be much interested .
12 Last summer , the place took on the air of a cheap seance , with ringing bells and flickering lights .
13 By this time his fantasies took on the air of medieval barons ' wars .
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 .
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