Example sentences of "with an air [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked solid , not just physically but mentally , with an air about him that denoted an inner strength . |
| 2 | He was leaning against the rail smoking a cigarette and staring with an air of melancholy towards the distant island . |
| 3 | Little knots of people stood about eyeing each other with an air of wondering why they had come at all . |
| 4 | Duncan buried himself in the paper and with an air of finality he said , — Well I 've got my job here and I 'm happy with it . |
| 5 | Moreover , the dancers involved have to take this type of performance very seriously , even though they must be able to ‘ toss off ’ the mistakes with an air of surprised innocence . |
| 6 | The Modern Churchman produced what Ramsey called a ‘ rather vehement and contemptuous ’ review ; slightly with an air of ‘ we settled this question long ago , why must this young man interfere ? ’ |
| 7 | Lisa and Jo had taken her to clinics , booked her in with midwives , read up on birth technology , warned her about smoking ; and all with an air of adult exasperation towards a wayward child . |
| 8 | By contrast the Sergeant Major has already finished , and is jogging on the spot with an air of contempt for the rest of us mere mortals . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , ’ Rosa said , with an air of sweet reasonableness . |
| 10 | He added that information with an air of modest pride . |
| 11 | With an air of hugely controlled patience she said , ‘ I want to see Lieutenant Werner . ’ |
| 12 | Erika joined them , scanning the mail , and Bodo bustled in , ruddy from the cold , rubbing his calloused hands together , taking a glass of plum brandy , and filling the flat with an air of cheerful , rough , vigorous outdoor life . |
| 13 | His pupils neatly all felt ( particularly the first pupil of the morning , at ten a.m. , who watched him lay down his steel-nibbed pen with an air of resignation ) that tutorials were an interruption to what he considered his real work . |
| 14 | Not counting the number of times she put her fat face round the door & said , nodding and smiling as only a Frenchwoman can , with an air of delighted gaiety ( ! ) |
| 15 | Well , bless my soul , ’ he said , with an air of exaggerated surprise . |
| 16 | You 're not attached to the Attorney General 's office , ’ said Mark with an air of feigned surprise . |
| 17 | ‘ How do you know that ? ’ she asked with an air of surprise . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's a man here , ’ Ma said with an air of wonder , ‘ been down a pothole for one hundred and thirteen days . |
| 19 | ( Abrams was a young , bright , sharp lawyer , always well-tailored , and with an air of fierce aceticism ; he will reappear often in this story as a man trying to keep at the edge of it , and usually succeeding . |
| 20 | A tiny fair-haired boy in army uniform walked jauntily up and down the bus with an air of chirpy innocence , holding a gun nearly as big as himself . |
| 21 | She smacked her lips with an air of finality and rummaged for her pipe . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm a Duke , ’ said the Duke with an air of gravity . |
| 23 | He painted Raymond as a mysterious and sensitive young man with an air of extraordinary prescience in an as yet unmoulded face . |
| 24 | Lunia was a beautiful young woman with an air of great distinction . |
| 25 | She drew Modigliani reading by lamplight in Nice , absorbed and distinguished with an air of apartness . |
| 26 | The four surviving landscapes Modigliani painted are dry , limpid scenes with an air of desolation ; trees dominate , cypress trees or leafless trees , standing like sentinels in front of the houses and buildings , as if waiting for the people to emerge . |
| 27 | To the right of our view , the lawn sloped up a gentle embankment to where the summerhouse stood , and it was there my father ’ s figure could by seen , pacing slowly with an air of preoccupation — indeed , as Miss Kenton puts it so well , ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 28 | That 's where established firms make their mistake , ’ Morgan had told him , speaking rapidly and with an air of total authority . |
| 29 | She returned a few minutes later with an air of triumph , waving a folded map . |
| 30 | Now , at the age of fifty-odd , the name was pathetically incongruous , calling up as it did someone fresh , compact and sparkling , with an air of crisp , but old-world domesticity . |