Example sentences of "flying [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ she continued , engrossed in her story , ‘ he brought the house down by flying on to the stage like a whirlwind and sweeping Mother off her feet ! ’ |
| 2 | In future EC airline pilots will be permitted to continue flying commercially between the ages of 60 and 65 years providing that they fly as part of a two- or three-pilot crew . Ed |
| 3 | The present owner of Miss Havisham 's house told of a fisherman she had met in Broadstairs one day who remembered ‘ Old Charley a-coming flying down from the cliff with a hop , skip and jump , with his hair all flying about ’ . |
| 4 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 5 | Of course , aircraft were flying long before the development of powerful mathematical models . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a sub-heading ‘ Knickers ’ and it says ‘ Passengers complained her green knickers were flying all over the place . ’ |
| 7 | There was brickwork and glass flying all over the place . |
| 8 | The case burst open , the contents flying all over the place , and with a cry of astonishment the man fell , his face bleeding . |
| 9 | Flares on carts and boats , horses stamping , men shouting , loose herrings flying all over the place and quickly snatched up by children and men . |
| 10 | There are quite a lot of other bits and bobs floating about , asteroids , meteors , little bits of chunks flying all over the place . |
| 11 | Visibility was good , but the Newfoundland fog bank could be seen ahead , and Jack was soon flying in between a bank of dense black cloud and fog . |
| 12 | For the last hour between half-a-million and a million starlings — impossible to estimate accurately — had been flying in from every direction . |
| 13 | ‘ It seems my nephew is so besotted with your sister that he 's treated his parents with arrant discourtesy , walking away from the opportunity of meeting his father 's cousin who is flying in from the States — a man who could be influential in his future career . |
| 14 | You can easily get into a situation where the model is flying forwards relative to the ground but is actually flying backwards through the air . |
| 15 | The aircraft took-off at 1537 hours piloted from the left hand seat ; on becoming airborne , at a position a little over halfway down the runway , the crew saw a flock of birds ahead flying just above the ground . |
| 16 | The ground around Bilbao rises to over 2,000 feet , and our route involved flying just above the tops of nearby hills . |
| 17 | Now imagine it flying away into the distance and think about where it is going . |
| 18 | But the hydra is n't flying away through the warp . |
| 19 | You can just imagine this bloody thing dri flying away down the drive ! |
| 20 | Hubble argues instead that the Universe is expanding , and every galaxy is flying away from every other . |
| 21 | NB : When you are flying away from the DF station the operator will still be giving you QDMS . |
| 22 | ‘ What I liked in the books was the free open-air life , the spice of illegality and daring , roguish characters — the opportunities so far exceeding my own , the gun , the great pond , the country home , the apparently endless leisure — the glorious moments that one could always recapture by opening the Poacher — and the tinge of sadness here and there as in the picture of the old moucher perishing in his sleep by the lime kiln , and the heron flying over in the morning indifferent . ’ |
| 23 | He 's bowling with considerable pace there , did Lawrence , that wicket 's cheered him up and he was rushing in , he 's got his line right , round that off stump and plays a bit of a open face anyway , so those in the slip Gordon beware and the one that did get an edge , it flew through , both Ian Botham who 's at second and Graham Gooch , they both stand pretty close , they work on the theory that it 's better to drop them then to have them bouncing in front of you , but they could have been about five yards deeper in that , the one , that , that went flying through with the character . |
| 24 | Move away to avoid flying directly over the field , but keep it within easy reach all the time . |
| 25 | Jack then decided to descend , flying close to the water for about 40 minutes , before seeing the two islands of Eeshal and Turk , the mainland was hidden by the rain . |
| 26 | If the towplane gains speed by flying close to the ground , when it noses up to start climbing , the effect of the wind gradient accentuates the climb so that the glider may easily be left flying close to the ground , in or near the wake and below the tug . |
| 27 | If the towplane gains speed by flying close to the ground , when it noses up to start climbing , the effect of the wind gradient accentuates the climb so that the glider may easily be left flying close to the ground , in or near the wake and below the tug . |
| 28 | He says that it 's using plane 's controls in a different way , and flying close to the ground which creates excitement . |
| 29 | Hunts , sometimes by day but regularly in dusk , usually in small parties , often flying close to an observer , normally quartering ground like a harrier . |
| 30 | Returning through Brotton I looked across the valley and wondered why a huge Union Jack was flying half-mast on the top of the Zetland Hotel at Saltburn . |