Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] in the air " in BNC.
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| 1 | They caught up in the air did n't they ? |
| 2 | The victims were crushed to death when the coach turned over in the air and smashed into the ground roof downwards . |
| 3 | Something 's trying to get in ! ’ and I rocketed up in the air and out of the water . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He gazed up in the air and appeared to be musing to the ceiling . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A FAMILY wiped out in the air tragedy left a poignant message behind . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Never went up in the air . |
| 13 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 14 | The little book went up in the air and came down shut . |
| 15 | Well it went up in the air . |
| 16 | we had our red and white rosettes and when our , I was sitting watching the match and when they scored the goal my slippers went up in the air . |
| 17 | ‘ There was a time , ’ one said , with a choking laugh , ‘ I could splinter a hazelnut tossed up in the air at five hundred yards . |
| 18 | He pushed the floor , and flipped over in the air , landing on his feet . |
| 19 | They heard it , wheeled up in the air towards it and right past me and it turned off the road in fear . |
| 20 | According to the Americans , a handful of dogfights during the first week produced a lopsided result : nearly a score of the most modern Iraqi French- and Soviet-built fighters shot down in the air for the loss , possibly , of a single American fighter . |
| 21 | The bike shot up in the air . |
| 22 | I it shot up in the air |
| 23 | 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 . |