Example sentences of "up [prep] the air " in BNC.
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| 1 | The homeless sleep up against the air vents of the great hotels , supping on the scent of hot fudge sundae and clam chowder . |
| 2 | Also looking at walking axes have been Grivel , who 've come up with the Air Tech , which weighs in at a gobsmacking 460g . |
| 3 | The irony is that had the tower been higher and had the teak ‘ scrubbers ’ been less efficient , the smoke would have gone straight up into the air . |
| 4 | Every bird in the wood seemed to fly up into the air . |
| 5 | I came up into the air gasping deeply , panting , aching lungs swelling , feeling a rush of suppressed terror , clinging onto the curtain in a shaky state . |
| 6 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 7 | Next , intermittent or semi-continuous explosions may hurl solid material up in a dense dark mass , with the leading fragments soaring straight up into the air , trailing smaller fragments behind them , and looking from a distance like rockets . |
| 8 | Sometimes , in the middle of a flow , or else at the small mouths or boccas from which the flows emerge , gas venting from the lava flings small glowing gobbets of it short distances up into the air . |
| 9 | This chapter will be concerned with the most straightforward kinds of pyroclastic deposits : those which are made up of fragments which have simply been shot up into the air and fallen back down again , so they are known as pyroclastic fall deposits . |
| 10 | They said whole fields were ripped up into the air ! |
| 11 | The kitten suddenly flings out a paw and scoops the object up into the air and backwards over its shoulder . |
| 12 | I just sat there staring at the bag as it unscrewed itself and the wind took it and blew it up into the air and away . |
| 13 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 14 | The woman pulled on her cigarette , then blew the smoke away straight up into the air with an exaggerated abandonment . |
| 15 | off and up into the air with mighty shudders and wobbles . |
| 16 | With correct forearm rotation , the club will be on the correct plane and the toe of the club will point straight up into the air at the halfway stage in the backswing ( main illustration ) . |
| 17 | Here the toe of the club should point straight up into the air , the clubshaft should be on the plane established at address and the back of the left wrist should be facing outwards , not turned down towards the ground or facing the sky . |
| 18 | Then , without warning , she grabbed hard and pulled it up into the air so that everyone could see what she was doing . |
| 19 | The bullet punched through armour plate , the tank exploded , and the arvee rose up into the air in a whirl of flame . |
| 20 | Then she let out a scream that seemed to lift her right up into the air and she dropped the plate with a crash and a splash onto the floor . |
| 21 | I must learn how to lift it right up into the air and keep it there . |
| 22 | Six days later , by the following Wednesday evening , she was able not only to lift the cigar up into the air but also to move it around exactly as she wished . |
| 23 | When he did we all jumped up into the air . |
| 24 | They bobbed , and wallowed , and were gripped by something and thrust up , up into the air . |
| 25 | The impact of the boar 's body rolled that leopard over and over all the way back to the forest edge and finally threw him up into the air in a somersault . |
| 26 | She lifted her buttocks up into the air , taunting Vashinov as he saw the white sperm slide out from inside her . |
| 27 | At Folkstumyren I came across a pair of bluethroats which were busy catching insects , sometimes flitting up into the air like a flycatcher to intercept craneflies . |
| 28 | A steep tunnel led up into the air . |
| 29 | William could see the village where they lived and the smoke from the fires rising straight up into the air and the dark tower of the church rising above a cluster of stark trees , and because he was nervous he wanted to work his way in that direction , so it would not be so far to run , but because his father was beside him , smiling his reassuring smile , he did n't . |
| 30 | Suddenly it soared forty feet up into the air , singing as it accelerated , a clear , far-carrying song : ‘ Tseep , tseep , tseep . ’ |