Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] high " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I can look out from my window high |
| 2 | He also said that I would have to become dedicated , my lifestyle would have to change and , most importantly , that I must set my sights high . |
| 3 | Images kept on coming at me which , like a crazy horse , I tried to resist , defiantly tossing my head high , but each new picture flashing into my mind enraged me more and more and I shook my head frantically from side to side . |
| 4 | If I go at the end of the season , then I will have done my best , and can hold my head high . ’ |
| 5 | I stood up , waited until he noticed me , took one last look round , then waved my hands high over my head and threw myself flat . |
| 6 | Where a technical problem is of great importance to a buying organisation , its visibility high and its solution difficult , any supplier who can solve it will gain immense bargaining power . |
| 7 | After the banquet an Italian performed a subtle and cunning rope trick , then a troupe of girls danced a vigorous whirling jig which left the faces of the spectators , as well as theirs , red with excitement as they kicked their legs high and let their skirts go up , revealing to all and sundry what lay beneath . |
| 8 | Aware of the history of that awful bloody confrontation throughout the 1969–70 tour , the new-era Springboks are determined to keep their heads high and their political profile low . |
| 9 | That was undoubtedly a legacy of her childhood , she thought resignedly — a throw-back to the days when she and her mother had been forced to hold their heads high and attempt to ignore the pointing fingers . |
| 10 | Holding her tray high , she moved on down the passageway . |
| 11 | She threw herself backwards on to the wooden desk , and swung her legs high above her . |
| 12 | Suddenly , she felt the younger man push her down on to her back , and lift her legs high . |
| 13 | As she kicked her legs high the air |
| 14 | Her jeans were very tight , her feet tiny and her heels high . |
| 15 | RANDOM Century Audiobooks offer two-cassette abridged readings of books which have been or shortly will be in the public eye — prize-winners , high-profile new publications , books newly made into films — and the company set their readers high standards . |
| 16 | Sarah tried to run , lifting her feet high in the snow and stumbling over snow-encrusted tussocks of heather but suddenly , to her consternation , the dog disappeared . |
| 17 | He was terrified that she might ‘ drop it ’ in the corridor , and so , to put his mind at rest , she told him she was only three months on , whereas in fact she was six , but carried her offspring high , so that it did n't show too much . |
| 18 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 19 | Carewscourt , standing on its hill high above the surrounding countryside , took the full brunt of it . |
| 20 | All right then , she thought , her courage high , she had also been extremely happy while she was having her affair with Tom . |
| 21 | The RUC keeps its profile high and costs low . |
| 22 | After that , growth was relatively slow up to 1981 — during which period high unemployment built up ; and then again faster — despite which unemployment , though now failing , has remained high . |
| 23 | She put her nose high in the air and stalked up the garden . |
| 24 | How can that be when the water workers have , by an odd quirk of fate , left her constituents high and dry , long before the dispute had a chance to hit anyone else ? |
| 25 | Its defenders say that they will always keep its price high and carefully screen potential owners , as a way of protecting it . |
| 26 | Extra finance was forthcoming to meet the two-year waiting list target by April 1992 and Regional Health Authorities were instructed to give its achievement high priority . |
| 27 | A slender new crescent moon lay on its back high in the clear night sky . |
| 28 | She tried gamely to hold her head high and proud , but to no avail . |
| 29 | Her voice was clear and confident , her head high . |
| 30 | Then she elbowed her way through them with her head high . |