Example sentences of "[vb base] up in the air " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave these computer been you know up in the air for about six months and Dave said you 've got ta get it repaired he said , cos you know y he 's got ta print out on it and everything |
| 2 | You know they do n't sort of poke up in the air like shoulders sometimes do . |
| 3 | Moving , funny , silly and things go up in the air and come down . |
| 4 | , if you do up in the air , he 's only got two dimensional vision Henry , he never looks up at anything . |
| 5 | Mr Pavlychko , a poet turned politician , knows enough of both trades to leave that answer up in the air . |
| 6 | The non-assertive character of the first three is quite obvious : the conditional clause leaves the actualization of dare up in the air in ( 31 ) ; ( 32 ) implies " she did n't dare ignore him any more than that " ; ( 33 ) is a sort of indignant rhetorical question implying that he should n't have dared take the native 's part against her . |