Example sentences of "high [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was high up above the Bay , on top of the hill . |
| 2 | they sat inside the hut beside a fire of thin bamboo , all there was to burn for firewood this high up above the treeline . |
| 3 | Indeed , the ruined fence can still be seen running from above the top waterfall in the Gill to high up onto the side of Birk Fell . |
| 4 | The phone is high up on the wall . |
| 5 | Maggie did n't know exactly what his position was , but he was high up on the management side . |
| 6 | The body was high up on the shoal , was n't it ? |
| 7 | This is an attractive and historic place , and very much a river town , having formed around the point where two dynamic Pyrenean torrents , the Gave d'Aspe from high up on the Col du Somport , and the Gave d'Ossau from even higher up on the ruggedly distinctive Pic du Midi d'Ossau , flow together . |
| 8 | In the wet , the broad ridge high up to the left is preferable , leading along to the conspicuous profile of Alport Castles — a huge landslip where millions of tons of shales and grits slid forward to create a spectacular feature above the hamlet of Alport . |
| 9 | The red light that shines out from high up in the nave roofing indicates the position of a True Nail held in a glass reliquary at the centre of a crucifix . |
| 10 | The window of the charge room was high up in the wall , but through it Wycliffe could distinctly hear the strident voice of a woman teacher talking to her class . |
| 11 | He was high up in the syndicate , which tied him in to Truro Daine . |
| 12 | They must have been high up in the tree , leaves . |
| 13 | Er , but I mean clearly the , the debt and the guarantees are paid down first and so for the reason we are high up in the pecking order , because we provided the er , the loans and the guarantees . |
| 14 | what they are doing you see , an authorized dealer , well even a non-authorized dealer get hold of a piece of kit and then somebody say want this system , right okay , and they just have a big load of forms for maintenance agreements and all they do the dealer 'll go along and put this kit in , B T 'll come along and say yeah that conforms to regulations , sign here , the customer er sign here , the dealer send the maintenance agreement to us , we signed it , send it back , we 've never even seen it , then we turn up and find that the main control unit 's high up in the attic or in a damp cellar , in a cupboard where you ca n't see it , there 's no light and stuff like that and we 're taking jobs on like that and it you know , it 's just impossible to work on them |
| 15 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 16 | Jesuit leaders said , however , that those on trial had been " scapegoats " and that the search had to continue for those high up in the military who had masterminded the operation . |
| 17 | The force of its leap dragged Trent breast high out of the water . |
| 18 | The columns of MLs led by the destroyer riding high out of the water were suddenly caught in the harsh glare of the west bank searchlight . |
| 19 | He paddled across awkwardly , his head tilted high out of the water , and made for the figwort . |
| 20 | They amazed us by leaping high out of the water and somersaulting two or three times before nosing beneath it again without missing a beat . |
| 21 | We watched the small boat carry him out to the middle of the river , where the great black prison-ship stood high out of the water , held by its rusty chains . |
| 22 | The back of the ship was high out of the water , and I was very thankful for this because all the ship 's food was there . |
| 23 | It 'll float high out of the baby 's reach . |
| 24 | As the net closed in , guided by a man balancing in a sort of tub in the water , the fish jumped higher and higher out of the water , and some of them managed to escape . |