Example sentences of "the air around " in BNC.
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1 | And people say they noticed how tightly O was holding Boy , pulling him closer and closer to him , as if he was clutching at him ; and how he smelt Boy too , taking in big draughts of the air around him , as if he was a man just escaped from drowning holding onto something and pulling the sweet night air down into his lungs in great grateful gulps . |
2 | I kept trying to get back to Changez 's lugubrious face , which reclined morosely in his good hand as the guests filled the air around him with cultivated noises . |
3 | Here you find clubs and schools like Associated Flying School , Paraparaumu Flight Training and Welair , with fleets of Pipers and Cessnas operating in skies less crowded than the air around the capital . |
4 | By using very exact analytical methods he has determined that humans can change the electrical conductivity of the air around them . |
5 | THE air around us always contains a certain amount of moisture — a lot on a humid summer 's day , less on a clear winter one . |
6 | The air around each of them is by no means as sweet-smelling as it was then and the water that flows over the falls into the harbour is certainly not as pure . |
7 | His colours are everywhere , in the warm pink of the hill towns , in the blue hills , the deep and huskily green oaks which cover them , in the white stones of the small upright churches , in the air around us , deep and rich with the scent of wild herbs . |
8 | If the air around the St Lawrence Ground is thick with optimism , the rise of Mark Ealham has much to do with that . |
9 | When the level of carbon dioxide breathed out by the bees gets high in some part of the nest , groups of several hundred workers start vigorously fanning with their wings , so circulating the air around the combs and levelling out any imbalances . |
10 | We can judge the temperature of the air around us , and any object we touch , through nerve endings in the skin . |
11 | The frequency of a sound is the number of times the air around the source vibrates each second . |
12 | He had been cooking because beef-flavoured steam droplets fell into the air around him in the fractional gravity of Mars , and mingled with the tiniest hint of sweat on his fingers were odoriferous particles of fresh garlic . |
13 | Because the air around her crackled with it , temperature , oxy-content , the very flavour of the rocks . |
14 | He wrenched the wheel round and rammed the gate , the bullets now ripping into the air around him . |
15 | It looked like a red dome on top of the tiles , and the air around it seemed to waver in a haze of heat . |
16 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
17 | The ice took heat from the air around it . |
18 | Most often the two groups ignored each other , but tension fizzed in the air around them . |
19 | The Sadat crouched low , clasping their heads as the red carpet and the wooden poles holding red and blue ropes flew into the air around them . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | There were little explosions in the air around him . |
22 | Alice felt as thought the words were stones , rolling out of her mouth , bruising the air around them . |
23 | However , while you have been reading the book , you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy , in the form of food , into disordered energy , in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat . |
24 | As the softly spoken syllables seemed to hover in the air around them with a soft moan he drew her fiercely against him , raining kisses on her face , making her shiver deliciously . |
25 | The animal plunged to a halt , snorting and tossing its head nervously as water sprayed into the air around them . |
26 | And now ’ — he made a gesture that cleared the air around them of all such trivia — ‘ I want to show you a machine that 's going to put some spirit into my work this summer . |
27 | And now suddenly the trail grows warmer … the air around St. James 's Gate is heady with sweet mash . |
28 | And all at once it was as though a fire raged between them , scorching their hungry bodies , sending sparks into the air around them . |
29 | ‘ I 'm the entertainments director , ’ Mandy repeated , missing the undertows that were now thick in the air around her , as dark blue eyes met light blue ones and clashed like hot air hitting cold . |
30 | They were dealing with the steaks , which fulfilled the savoury promise that filled the air around the big stone barbecue and tasted delicious . |