Example sentences of "[v-ing] up for air " in BNC.
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| 1 | rising up for air like a diver , |
| 2 | I found myself working twelve to fourteen hours a day , barely coming up for air , and looking forward to finishing the book so that life could begin again — rather than enjoying the day-by-day process of writing , and living life to the full . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought I 'd done well by managing to last two and a half minutes without coming up for air he said . ’ |
| 4 | He did , and with a most impressive gargling technique rarely heard outside a waste disposal unit , coming up for air to declare the stuff just as peculiar as could be expected , ‘ as no two bottles are ever the same ’ . |
| 5 | It is the voice of the disillusioned and disgruntled George Bowling — ‘ nerves all worn to bits , empty places in our bones where the marrow ought to be ’ — in Orwell 's pre-war novel Coming Up for Air . |
| 6 | This was well captured by George Orwell who , in Coming up for air ( 1939 ) , describes the return of George Bowling , after 18 unimaginative years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda , and now shaken by the fear of a future war , returns to the village of his childhood : Lower Binfield . |