Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] air " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then as the first shrill blast pierced the air he slammed the car into gear and glared at her . |
| 2 | The heat of the welding compressed the air inside the tank which , together with the acetylene flame , blew the tank open , causing a flame to shoot out and burn Heinz . ’ |
| 3 | that choked the air and would n't let him eat |
| 4 | It was a place of sea-pinks and oyster-catchers , where small birds dusted their wings in fennel and made the air smell of aniseed . |
| 5 | Great moon-daisies were shedding their yellow petals all around us ; a mint grew in the grass which made the air extra sweet . |
| 6 | The sound of chimes , she said , made the air stifling . |
| 7 | They lowered the Air Force ensign , but as the flag of the Royal Ornance Corps was being raised in its place it fell off . |
| 8 | The cat turned and looked at them , and it pawed the air . |
| 9 | The Brigadier stabbed the air in front of him . |
| 10 | She stabbed the air with her forefinger . |
| 11 | Equally his theatrical gifts were appreciated , for he conveyed the air of acting a role in carefully staged manner at each of his formal encounters or luncheon engagements . |
| 12 | His/her long muscular tongue lashed and probed the air like a sense organ as if to supplement his/her tiny shrunken eyes . |
| 13 | He stepped down to the water 's edge and smelled the air hard . |
| 14 | He stood in the crude stirrups of his saddle and smelled the air hard , seeming satisfied . |
| 15 | He stood in the crude stirrups of his saddle and smelled the air hard , seeming satisfied . |
| 16 | I suddenly realised the air was filled with soot from the chimneys above and the snow was taking on the appearance of cottage cheese sprinkled with black pepper . |
| 17 | Gannets circled out to meet us , black tipped wings with a six-foot span beat the air with stately strokes . |
| 18 | He beat the air with his hands and made the most heart-rending cries . |
| 19 | When researchers analysed the air in the tower , they found a sulphur oxyfluoride , SO2F2 . |
| 20 | For instance , when J. Henry Thoreau wrote of the greyness of rocks , he described the air as the thin paint in which they have been dipped and brushed by the wind . |
| 21 | It perfectly caught the air of feebleness which has characterised months of desultory chatter . |
| 22 | Now he had drawn level with the fire , and as the villagers caught the air of his song he was quickly rewarded with the sound of their voices — men , women and children — lifted in unison . |
| 23 | This time when he came back in to see her , the air was darkest around his form , but when he grinned over the noise of the men in the room behind the door — a woman 's laugh punctured the air beyond — and he sat down peaceably at the foot of her bed , the blue paled to a translucence like a robin 's egg . |
| 24 | Moma Parsheen stroked the air . |
| 25 | By that time there were three supersonic contenders for the medium term : the English Electric Company 's P-1 , which later became the Lightning , the Saunders Roe P-177 , which combined jet with rocket propulsion ; and the Fairey delta-winged PD-2 , in which Peter Twiss wrested the air speed record from the Americans in 1956 with a speed of 1,132 m.p.h . |
| 26 | It was October when I arrived at Binbrook , and as winter approached the air became bitingly cold . |
| 27 | From 15,000 feet onwards our ascent was slower but we ploughed on until , having reached the altitude of 21,000 we found the air somewhat thin . |
| 28 | The light movement of air drifted her scent across his face , and he sucked the air in greedily . |
| 29 | Somewhere , perhaps a mile away down the Beirut front line , shells were bursting in a long , low rumble that ever so slightly changed the air pressure in rue Trablos . |
| 30 | Speculation about a possible realignment of the EMS clouded the air too . |