Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] a high [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurs in Henry IV , Part I. Falstaff and the Prince are having a high old time by pretending in turn to be the King chastising Hal for his association with Falstaff . |
| 2 | Norweb is paying a higher interim dividend , up from 5.3p to 5.9p and the final should be just as healthy . |
| 3 | It will become increasingly clear that Britain is paying a high political price for its refusal to participate in the EMS , not least in the almost immediate reflex reaction against any British proposals to affect the design of a future monetary union . |
| 4 | Daredevil Elaine Mitchell is planning a high flying stunt to raise money for multiple sclerosis research . |
| 5 | She said she 'd been following a higher moral law . |
| 6 | Gail was then a nursing supervisor of an Overseas Missionary Fellowship Home for retired missionaries and I was pursuing a high flying career selling shoes . |
| 7 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |
| 8 | Apart from the fact that there was trouble with one of the other directors — apparently Jefferson was having a high old time with his wife and , to add insult to injury , charging the hotel rooms to expenses — you may recall that Downton lost two very valuable contracts with players in tennis and golf . |