Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] the high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 2 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 3 | The Graduate Enterprise Programme can change that by helping you jump each hurdle , rather than letting you in for the high jump . |
| 4 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
| 5 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 6 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 7 | Boy stood outside the window and imagined the things he might see inside this magazine , should he ever take it down off the high shelf and open it , perhaps in the privacy of his room or perhaps right there on the street at five o'clock . |
| 8 | ‘ Afterwards , you can sit back and watch the investment grow handsomely , before you offer it out to the highest bidder and make a killing . |
| 9 | A harry torrent flooded through the opening and in no time at all the herd was legging it back to the high land in a wild stampede . |