Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] on [art] air " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last summer , the place took on the air of a cheap seance , with ringing bells and flickering lights . |
| 2 | Tristan was not in the sitting room but a haze of smoke hung on the air and a reek like a garden bonfire prickled in my nostrils . |
| 3 | The same smell of stale tobacco hung on the air that she recalled from her only meeting with Tatyana Nowak the day before her suicide . |
| 4 | Silence hung on the air , and when he turned back he saw that Suragai was still watching as if he did not understand what had occurred . |
| 5 | As an infection carried on the air and in milk , diphtheria was not much affected by changes in living standards . |
| 6 | But as Sara White discovered , the re-enactment took on an air of reality with some twenty-five soldiers injured and seven taken to hospital . |
| 7 | He leered at her , then almost immediately his face took on an air of concern . |