Example sentences of "[verb] up for air " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I said , ‘ I took off my boots and jacket and left them up here and I dropped into the water , because Harry had n't come up for air , like I told you . ’ |
| 2 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 3 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 4 | ‘ Soon be able to come up for air . ’ |
| 5 | She had made it halfway before deciding to come up for air , turning her face upwards as she broke the surface only to collide in a tangle of arms and legs , with a strong , masculine body . |
| 6 | I came up for air . |
| 7 | ‘ It is n't fair , ’ she complained breathlessly , when at last they both came up for air . |
| 8 | It was breathed against her lips , as they came up for air , and the erotic fire scorching through her made her dizzy with illicit longing . |
| 9 | His kisses were deep and cherishing and hungry , and it was a long time before they eventually came up for air . |
| 10 | Jump up for air ! |
| 11 | Jump up for air ! |
| 12 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 13 | rising up for air like a diver , |
| 14 | I found myself working twelve to fourteen hours a day , barely coming up for air , and looking forward to finishing the book so that life could begin again — rather than enjoying the day-by-day process of writing , and living life to the full . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought I 'd done well by managing to last two and a half minutes without coming up for air he said . ’ |
| 16 | He did , and with a most impressive gargling technique rarely heard outside a waste disposal unit , coming up for air to declare the stuff just as peculiar as could be expected , ‘ as no two bottles are ever the same ’ . |
| 17 | It is the voice of the disillusioned and disgruntled George Bowling — ‘ nerves all worn to bits , empty places in our bones where the marrow ought to be ’ — in Orwell 's pre-war novel Coming Up for Air . |
| 18 | This was well captured by George Orwell who , in Coming up for air ( 1939 ) , describes the return of George Bowling , after 18 unimaginative years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda , and now shaken by the fear of a future war , returns to the village of his childhood : Lower Binfield . |
| 19 | A twisted tree reached up for air , |
| 20 | Twice he had let her come up for air , so that it would take longer , but the third time he had held her under until she was finished . |
| 21 | Aloof , distant , stylishly diving for fish , roughly ambushing seals when they come up for air . |