Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the sky " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , these images of traces sometimes persisted into my dreams , appearing in the sky above the action of the dream , giving me the impression that I could actually monitor my own sleep stages while dreaming . |
| 2 | I gazed upwards and could see a few stars twinkling in the sky , one seemed much brighter than the others . |
| 3 | rainbow climbing high , everyone can see it climbing over the sky , rainbow , here 's a rainbow yeah today poor |
| 4 | exploding across the sky |
| 5 | Arrowing into the sky , blasting the thin air behind him into a long trail of ionized particles , cracking the air and land below with the plane 's supersonic footprint , outflying anything or anybody they sent up in his wake . |
| 6 | Creed was looking into the sky as if scanning for omens . |
| 7 | John Robinson was telling us all in his 1963 book Honest to God that we should get rid of pictures of God as an old man with a beard living in the sky . |
| 8 | With the sun ebbing in the sky and the smoke of Thunder Mountain drifting across the horizon , the Dwarf army camped at the entrance to Mad Dog Pass . |
| 9 | During an extended period of wandering in the sky world , Litaw met Inabay , who gave him some dust from her eyes . |
| 10 | Quit wasting your time looking at the sky . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Yeah , Papa , stop looking at the sky . |
| 12 | ‘ I was looking at the sky . ’ |
| 13 | He was looking skywards the way he did as a player : he would flick at the ball with the outside of his left foot while leaning back looking at the sky . |
| 14 | Slorne was huddled silently in the top corner of her cage looking at the sky . |
| 15 | Others might be talking to their girlfriends or just idly smoking and looking at the sky . |
| 16 | Jenna lay looking at the sky , breathing in the smell of the grass and smiling to herself . |
| 17 | She , and could , found she could not fly and laid there looking at the sky . |
| 18 | Pink clouds with white tipped edges were gliding across the sky . |
| 19 | As far as she could see , the road was going into the sky ! |
| 20 | The air was quite filled with hundreds and hundreds of swifts , wheeling and turning in the sky , with dozens of swallows and sand-martins and just a few house-martins lower down over the water . |
| 21 | When Postman , John Fletcher is n't at work , this is what he spends most of his time doing ; peering at the sky , in his backyard Observatory he calls Mount Tuffley . |
| 22 | Ace ran through rain that hissed like radio static , through mud that sucked at her heels , through rolls of smoke that cloaked the camp with the darkness of night and parted only occasionally to reveal nothing but clouds , almost as dark , racing across the sky above . |
| 23 | Now imagine that you open your eyes and you can see a bird flying through the sky . |
| 24 | And of course this , there , we could n't understand it what these things were that went flying through the sky and er aeroplane tried to chase them . |
| 25 | Kimberley and Killion were prancing about the sky , failing to distract the defences , and Lambert strayed into a hail of machine-gun fire , splashed with flak . |
| 26 | I listened to the birds singing and watched a curl of grey-blue smoke rising into the sky from the station 's brick chimney , and winter and the war seemed unbelievable . |
| 27 | I shout , pointing into the sky . |
| 28 | Distracting techniques are frequently used with pre-school children either before a problem arises or as a palliative once the problem is occurring , for example pointing to an aeroplane flying in the sky to help the child forget that the ice cream van is parked outside the playground . |
| 29 | And , the story line could go and over the horizon she could see all sorts of very colourful kites flying in the sky that other children were flying in that lovely afternoon ! |
| 30 | Bernice saw creatures flying in the sky about two kilometres away . |