break the surface

You must have had to break the surface of the skin to do that.

By that point, the head must have broken the surface.

He made his way through to it and broke the surface.

"The box is a means to break the surface of the real," it said.

Ahead and to our right a head breaks the surface.

The head must break the surface during the second stroke.

His mind broke the surface and fell back several times.

I saw her head break the surface, then pale arms.

Just break surface of fat and don't go into meat.

The way you broke the surface and got out of it was by opening your eyes.