Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adj] [prep] the air " in BNC.

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1 At first light on 15 May , the Battalion was machine-gunned from the air .
2 A blustery wind made control very difficult and for too much of the time the ball was high in the air .
3 Though she still knew she was obscurely to blame , that when Tommaso lifted her onto the bar stool with his big hands which almost met under her rib cage , the current was live in the air around them , and Rosa would not have liked it .
4 Jobson is good in the air — but so are newsome and Wetherall .
5 Indignation on his behalf was thick in the air .
6 Why Howard Wilkinson thought Richard Gough and Co were vulnerable in the air is beyond me .
7 By the time your film 's ready for the air , the whole situation has changed .
8 There the sky was deep blue , the smell of the earth was heavy in the air , the streams ran slowly and silently .
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