Example sentences of "up in the air " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or else , because one is lifted up in the air , to be unsettled and therefore restless , anxious , tense and doubtful . |
| 32 | Many modern expressions capture this ambivalence , such as being ‘ up in the air ’ or being ‘ hung up ’ . |
| 33 | When Jesus says to his disciples , ‘ You are not to set your mind on food or drink ; you are not to worry ’ ( Luke 12:29 — the only New Testament use of the word ) , he is saying that God 's care for us as Father means that food and drink are not to be a hang-up , an occasion for doubt and anxiety which constantly keeps us up in the air . |
| 34 | If a person is ‘ torn ’ between opinions , unable to ‘ make up ’ his mind , or if he is ‘ up in the air ’ over something and unsure which side he should ‘ come down on ’ , or if he is furiously ‘ debating ’ with himself or ‘ hanging back ’ , or weighing up his ‘ reservations ’ , he is nothing if not ‘ in two minds ’ . |
| 35 | Do n't worry if your knees are way up in the air . |
| 36 | As she stood up in her stirrups , stretching over Hermia 's nearside shoulder to hit the forehand , her right leg automatically swivelled up in the air . |
| 37 | She was also staggered by how energetically the Argentines played , hitting balls up in the air , juggling and tapping them , twisting , turning and stopping , followed by Ferrari bursts of acceleration before circling again . |
| 38 | No sooner was Neil in the air than the left gun panel in the upper wing surface came loose and stuck up in the air . |
| 39 | ‘ Quagmire , ’ said Zach , and he gave a sigh and threw his hands up in the air . |
| 40 | This spirit can only travel in a straight line , so when it slides down the roof in the hope of gaining entry to a house , it will be swept up in the air again by the curving gable . |
| 41 | ‘ We 're up in the air at the moment , ’ Bono concludes a line of conversation where we 're wondering about the direction and attitude of new music ( But can you trust it ? ) especially those current wagon hoppers such as Killing Joke ( J'accuse ! ) . |
| 42 | Raise your right arm up in the air close to your head , then place back on your hip , repeat with your left arm . |
| 43 | Keep your foot flexed and start slowly circling your right leg , at the same time bringing it up in the air . |
| 44 | We 're up in the air and our school 's down there |
| 45 | ACTOR Bruce Willis gave wife Demi Moore a star-studded 30th birthday bash — 30,000ft up in the air . |
| 46 | One of the humans reached down gingerly and picked up the box , lifting it up in the air as though Masklin was something very rare and delicate . |
| 47 | ( Evita , in which he was to play Che Guevara , has bounced from studio to studio and remains up in the air because of casting and budget disagreements . ) |
| 48 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ Obviously we wo n't be deliberately kicking Gazza up in the air . |
| 50 | It was wonderful to be up in the air and to feel the air swishing past his face . |
| 51 | Once Dawn took it into her head to attempt a sudden flight , jumped up in the air and found herself agonisingly caught , because of the tenderness round her feet under the jesses . |
| 52 | She 'd point up in the air , where the Gnats were zipping around on their little gliders , like little pointed flower petals in the sky . |
| 53 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 54 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 55 | If you put him on a wyvern there is a temptation to spend half the game flitting about behind the enemy lines or stuck up in the air . |
| 56 | The base wood of the plant therefore grows higher each year and we get the familiar ‘ bush rose ’ consisting of 1 ft ( 0.3m ) , 2 ft ( 0.6m ) or even more of old , bare and barky wood , with the current year 's bloom-bearing growth starting from way up in the air ! |
| 57 | If the aeroplane broke up in the air or the engine fell apart then the designers could be at fault ; if navigation aids were not working properly a radio engineer could be responsible , or even the Director of Civil Aviation who failed to provide enough money for the maintenance of the aids . |
| 58 | Mr Pavlychko , a poet turned politician , knows enough of both trades to leave that answer up in the air . |
| 59 | ‘ The OSF technology is up in the air at the moment . |
| 60 | However , things are apparently still up in the air and OEMs are expected to gang up on the doorstep to get their two cents in . |