Examples:
Man cannot fly.
The Piper J-3 cub is the plane that taught America to fly!
She flies F-16s.
Let's go fly a kite!
The nations fly their flags in front of the UN.
We flew blind through the fog.
An enemy plane flew by.
They were open-cockpit mail pilots who flew contact.
They flew on through the night.
We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America.
She is flying to Cincinnati tonight.
Are we driving or flying?
Linbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic.
Mappings:
VerbNet: drive-11.5-1,nonvehicle-51.4.2,run-51.3.2,spatial_configuration-47.6
FrameNet: Self_motion,Motion,Bringing,Operate_vehicle,Ride_vehicle
PropBank: fly.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
fly_on 1
fly_contact 1
fly_blind 1
fly_by 1
Examples:
He flew about the place.
Rumors and accusations are flying.
He flew into a rage.
Time flies like an arrow.
He threw down his gun and fled.
All my money flew dramatically out of my hand.
He really flew off the handle when I suggested selling the house.
The door flew open.
Mappings:
VerbNet: run-51.3.2
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
fly_off_the_handle 1
fly_open 1
Examples:
Miranda flied out to right field.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 13
Commentary: Includes: FLY THE COOP
Examples:
After years of fighting with my mother, my father finally flew the coop.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
fly_the_coop 1
Commentary: Includes: FLY HIGH
Examples:
He was flying high in the summer months.
The company was flying high as a maker of personal computers.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
fly_high 1, 2
Commentary: Includes: FLY IN THE FACE OFF, FLY IN THE TEETH OF
Examples:
This action flies in the face of the government.
His ideas flew in the teeth of Aristotle's.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM