Example sentences of "high [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if at a prearranged signal a chant began high up in the gallery : ‘ Fascism means Murder ! |
| 2 | No-one knows how long it has been there , high up in the courtyard of the Palazzo Segni Masetti , which now belongs largely to the Associazione Commercianti . |
| 3 | ‘ He is the son of the Khedive 's third wife , so not high up in the stakes . |
| 4 | It 's these peasants , the Ayllu people living high up in the west of the country that Oxfam is trying to help . |
| 5 | The Gloucester ski racing team are out on the slopes training all winter … except this time we 're not high up in the Alps but right here in England in Telford in shropshire … this is artificial snow … its the only slope of its kind in the country … and to save money and time our young racers are coming here to train … |
| 6 | Forster said to Elizabeth — for he also was on that cruise and later they ate their hardboiled eggs together , sitting high up in the theatre at Delphi , ‘ on the prompt side ’ . |
| 7 | At 2.45pm on Sunday , November 1990 , the body of an Englishman was found in a small gorge high up in the Sierra de Gredos mountains of central Spain . |
| 8 | High up in the sky was a protective layer of gas that screened out dangerous ultraviolet rays from the sun . |
| 9 | But then she seemed to hear , from a huge distance , a thin desolate calling like gulls high up in the sky . |
| 10 | We heard , like Tom , ‘ the skylark saying his matins high up in the air ’ . |
| 11 | Tucked away high up in the Ratikon Alps , Brand is a beautiful little village in the traditional Austrian style . |
| 12 | High up in the mountains . |
| 13 | Beginning as crashing streams and spectacular waterfalls high up in the mountains , these quickly converge to form raging rivers . |
| 14 | As we had managed to walk so far the previous day , we were fairly high up in the mountains , and knew that the fog could take as long as 48 hours to clear . |
| 15 | was that the one where hang on let me think what it was , there 's some , there 's a it was , at Oxford College were n't it and one of them was trying to be a like high up in the church or something |
| 16 | The example sketched out above concerns those relatively high up in the hierarchy , but it can be extended to cover other employees of the body-maker . |
| 17 | After Lescun , the valley of the Aspe grows increasingly tight and stony , a forbidding landscape well epitomized by the manmade fortress of Le Portalet , built high up in the cliffs on the left just before you come to the final French village of Urdos . |
| 18 | A small window , rather high up in the wall facing the door , was glazed in frosted glass with a single pane above of the stained kind in a dark purplish-red . |
| 19 | In Wycliffe 's temporary office there was only one small , dirty window high up in the wall , but the sun happened to be shining through it and so his desk and chair were placed in a pool of sunlight . |
| 20 | Virtually all tropical forest trees tend to have leaves adapted to deal with the surprisingly harsh and often dry conditions high up in the canopy , with extremely varying light , and with very heavy downpours of rain . |
| 21 | He had n't yet reached the Lock but there she was , sitting high up in the dunes , on a sandy shelf , half hidden among grasses and brambles . |
| 22 | Windows high up in the north wall gave a diffused light . |
| 23 | Perhaps , the researchers conclude , it was largely the need to get safely from tree to tree that stimulated the evolution of such a clever ape high up in the trees . |
| 24 | And how to shoot the rooks nesting high up in the trees with a rifle . |
| 25 | Macho and Ulysse were by this time standing upright , concentrating on the movements of the colobus high up in the trees . |
| 26 | But the odd rumour has gone round that Six has been operating someone big , someone quite high up in the KGB . |
| 27 | The Carabinieri station was at Bagno di Romagna , a small town high up in the Apennines on the borders of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna . |
| 28 | ‘ There are grilles high up in the walls , so whatever happens do n't make a sound or we 'll be in a cell so fast your head will spin . ’ |
| 29 | High up in the apple-tree , sprouting from one of the gnarled old limbs , was a great mass of mistletoe . |
| 30 | Mrs. Gould 's brothers have estates high up in the Hunter just under the Liverpool Range and within five miles of the Menuras . |