Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the air " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman dropped the credits where he could n't catch them ; the thin plastic chips feathered down through the air and Mijnheer scrabbled after them , his dignity in shreds . |
| 2 | The bullet punched through armour plate , the tank exploded , and the arvee rose up into the air in a whirl of flame . |
| 3 | The sound was so alarming that the ducks on the lake enclosure opposite rose up into the air in sudden flight . |
| 4 | Nothing was left but a clearing in the forest and a flock of doves who rose up into the air , wheeled round , and flew off . |
| 5 | They caught up in the air did n't they ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Erm , I have I think cousin , erm , who was in the Air Force during the war , and came back from the Air Force with a child . |
| 8 | ‘ When I came out of the Air Force I did articles and pieces for various magazines as well as reviews for newspapers , including the Yorkshire Gazette and Herald and the Northern Echo . |
| 9 | The victims were crushed to death when the coach turned over in the air and smashed into the ground roof downwards . |
| 10 | Something 's trying to get in ! ’ and I rocketed up in the air and out of the water . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He gazed up in the air and appeared to be musing to the ceiling . |
| 13 | A steep tunnel led up into the air . |
| 14 | In total batting command early in the tour , Gooch had his third successive single-figure score when one which angled in through the air and left him off the pitch induced a nick that Parore tossed high . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Her chin stuck up into the air . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ashley was balanced on the edge of the skip with her arms stretching unsuccessfully down and her bottom stuck up in the air when , from the dark , smelly depths , she heard a car door slam . |
| 20 | ‘ Your choice , ’ Liston reminded her as she stepped out into the air . |
| 21 | A FAMILY wiped out in the air tragedy left a poignant message behind . |
| 22 | Rincewind tumbled out of the air , screaming . |
| 23 | I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air , never to be seen again . |
| 24 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It leapt back into the air with an explosive flutter of wing and tail , warbling consternation , signalling alarm . |
| 27 | Dot felt the room lurch away , while the milk jug with its bead-decorated muslin cover , the fly-paper dangling from the lamp above the table , the rosy faces of the gathered people flew round through the air . |
| 28 | So , ’ he went on with the air of finalising the subject , ‘ I 've narrowed my horizons . ’ |
| 29 | Never went up in the air . |
| 30 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |