Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [art] air " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Americans , a handful of dogfights during the first week produced a lopsided result : nearly a score of the most modern Iraqi French- and Soviet-built fighters shot down in the air for the loss , possibly , of a single American fighter . |
| 2 | Where you hang upside down in the air and |
| 3 | He pointed melodramatically , running a finger along in the air ahead of him , peering with burning eyes as if indeed watching an army of the dead , invisible to the rest of us . |
| 4 | Pushing hard back against the mountain , he spun backwards out from the rock , curling over in the air so slowly that he could watch , in slow motion , first the passing overhead of the dark clouds , then the mountains , the far side of the valley , the meadow , the cabin , and , at last , the lake red with mud . |
| 5 | He pushed the floor , and flipped over in the air , landing on his feet . |
| 6 | The victims were crushed to death when the coach turned over in the air and smashed into the ground roof downwards . |
| 7 | The silver-plated frame winked at him as it turned over and over in the air . |
| 8 | This was a topical point as Faldo is currently ‘ up in the air ’ on whether he will play in the American Nabisco Grand Prix or the last European event , the Volvo Masters . |
| 9 | I went right up in the air . |
| 10 | Just at that moment a man staggered out of the door of the bank ; when he saw the tableau of police and soldiers in front of him , he threw his arms up in the air . |
| 11 | They sat down in the road and , when the state police dragged them away , they threw jackrocks under the wheels of the ‘ scab ’ trucks ( a jackrock is a couple of sharpened nails welded together so that no matter which way they land , they always have a point sticking up in the air ) . |
| 12 | Kane 's ‘ When You 're Sad ’ , Husker Du 's ‘ Up in the Air ’ , Meat Puppets ' ‘ Two Rivers ’ , Saqqara Dogs ' ‘ Greenwich Mean Time ’ … |
| 13 | Try to understand that Pop should be up in the air , supernatural , alive to all angles and shades of emotion , plastic and twice-cooked . |
| 14 | Suddenly with a tremendous stroke an old man close by threw a tiny fish up in the air and down it fell . |
| 15 | The bike shot up in the air . |
| 16 | Who was it who said that the Irish took the English language and threw the words up in the air just to see how they all sparkled as they came tumbling down ? |
| 17 | Never went up in the air . |
| 18 | Stand in the middle of the border , tip the seeds on to the palm of your hand and throw them up in the air as high as you possibly can . |
| 19 | I cried , jumping up in the air in amazement . |
| 20 | My own plans are still totally up in the air , except that I am sure to resume my work when the new season gets underway — and then I am just going to make music wherever I am offered the best conditions for it . |
| 21 | He spun it up in the air , caught it and deftly slid it into his shirt pocket . |
| 22 | Stewpid is up on traction , which means his arm is up in the air , so that he ca n't lie down at all , even to sleep . |
| 23 | Note how they sometimes walk with their tails up in the air , probably using them as a flag for signalling to others in the group when on the move through undergrowth . |
| 24 | He heard her whisking and wailing on her way , and he bent down and laid the cock-feather on the stone , and behold with a heavy groaning and grinding the huge stone swung up in the air and down in the earth , as though on a pivot or balance , disturbing waves of soil and heather like thick sea-water , and showing a dark , dank passage under the heather-roots and the knotty roots of the gorse . |
| 25 | EMI A & R boss Nick Gatfield could shed little light on the situation : ‘ It 's all up in the air at the moment , we are not sure what is going to happen . |
| 26 | I 'm stood at the tee throwing the clubs up in the air and whooping away and he just turns to me and says , ‘ Do n't get too excited , Jacky . |
| 27 | He gazed up in the air and appeared to be musing to the ceiling . |
| 28 | When less fluid lavas are involved , which do n't break up into droplets , large gobbets of the molten rock are flung up from the vent , spreading out into irregular plates which may break up in the air into smaller bits . |
| 29 | She was bum up in the air , small head to one side ‘ gnawing her way through Donald 's portion and then on to the rest of the poisoned carcass of the chicken , which Henry added to her plate . |
| 30 | We are going back to 1978 , maybe I was a bit vain and thought the world revolved around me , but it was my way of motivating myself , and it worked with Archie Gemmill , every time I played him after that I kicked him up in the air . ’ |