Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] air " in BNC.
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| 1 | we 've done very well for escaping it , the only trouble is we have n't got the rain and now , this , this coming summer I dread to think what 's gon na happen , look how dry those fields are , just look at it if we get a wind up , if we , a wind starts to blow it 'll move a lot of this , it will just lift it up into the air , we 'll get clouds of soil blowing all over the place . |
| 2 | ‘ Forget all this romantic stuff about tossing it up , batsmen careering down the pitch to slog it up in the air , and even slipping in the occasional chinaman . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hello Simon , well you can stick your finger anywhere you like , you can stick it up in the air , because you 're victorious today . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 8 | Then , without warning , she grabbed hard and pulled it up into the air so that everyone could see what she was doing . |
| 9 | so if you doing that , doing that keep you up in the air , right , keep doing that you 'll go that way , when the helicopter 's you want to do that way , so obviously |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Keep your foot flexed and start slowly circling your right leg , at the same time bringing it up in the air . |
| 12 | How are we gon na get you up in the air ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He spun it up in the air , caught it and deftly slid it into his shirt pocket . |
| 15 | Slaven said : ‘ Pally has said he will kick me up in the air if he gets a chance . |
| 16 | Toucans collect them one at a time , throwing them up in the air and deftly catching them at the back of their throats . |
| 17 | ‘ But it 's a good life , ’ the Dodger said , taking some coins from his pocket and throwing them 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 | His signal achievement at Chanel has been to take all the familiar Chanel ideas , the neat , gilt buttoned suit , the chain handbags , the bows , the camellias , throw them up in the air , alter their proportions , and re-make the look invented by Coco for Twenties flappers , so that it strikes a new chord . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | " If you throw it up in the air , " the elfin one said , " it will evaporate before it reaches the ground . |
| 22 | ‘ But they carried us up in the air ! |
| 23 | Quick as a flash he was at her side , catching her before she hit the ground , his arm hooking behind her knees to scoop her up into the air . |