Example sentences of "high up in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is the son of the Khedive 's third wife , so not high up in the stakes . |
| 2 | High up in the mountains . |
| 3 | Beginning as crashing streams and spectacular waterfalls high up in the mountains , these quickly converge to form raging rivers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And how to shoot the rooks nesting high up in the trees with a rifle . |
| 9 | Macho and Ulysse were by this time standing upright , concentrating on the movements of the colobus high up in the trees . |
| 10 | The Carabinieri station was at Bagno di Romagna , a small town high up in the Apennines on the borders of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | He may be placated , an acceptable tribute being pebbles doused in the blood of six young men , then placed high up in the branches of a tree so the mura-muras may reach them . |
| 13 | In fact the calls could also have been made by the Seychelles bulbul , a brown thrush-like bird with an orange-red beak which we saw feeding high up in the palms in several places . |
| 14 | Besides , eradication efforts in Pakistan have merely pushed the opium higher up in the hills and over the border into Afghanistan . |
| 15 | Higher up in the mountains is the system of ceques centred on the old Inca capital of Cuzco . |