Example sentences of "high [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was high up above the Bay , on top of the hill . |
| 2 | There , she was high up above the woods , but instead of being able to see all that was going on below for miles around , as she had expected , all she could see was — leaves ! |
| 3 | they sat inside the hut beside a fire of thin bamboo , all there was to burn for firewood this high up above the treeline . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Maggie did n't know exactly what his position was , but he was high up on the management side . |
| 6 | Corniglia is the hardest to reach as it , unlike all the others , is high up on the cliffs rather than by the sea . |
| 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 | The phone is high up on the wall . |
| 9 | The light flooded down from five roundels high up on the far long side , as though in a cathedral clerestory . |
| 10 | The body was high up on the shoal , was n't it ? |
| 11 | ‘ The sea has obviously come up and washed it out of the rocks and the heavy rain has probably washed the puddles of oil from high up on the banks where the sea was n't reaching . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The tall storeroom on the ground floor , just beyond the kitchen , stretched high up to the rafters and Helen knew it would take a sleeping gallery . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If he 'd been born an American he 'd have been high up in the CIA — and still informing Moscow … ’ |
| 16 | He was high up in the syndicate , which tied him in to Truro Daine . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | They must have been high up in the tree , leaves . |
| 22 | No he was , he was but he was quite high up in the Royal Australian Air Force and having today which must have been in the middle of the night because Thursday , bit behind are n't they Australian 's ? |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | It 'll float high out of the baby 's reach . |
| 25 | The force of its leap dragged Trent breast high out of the water . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He paddled across awkwardly , his head tilted high out of the water , and made for the figwort . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |