Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] high [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huge cresset torches were placed high on the walls , the tables had been covered with white linen and the only plate used was of the best thick silver . |
| 2 | After that , it was simply a matter of having a strong wind , the sailors climbing up and down the rigging , adjusting the sail to catch every breeze and puff of air while look-outs were posted high above the mast . |
| 3 | The cabins were located high on the side of a steep hill . |
| 4 | Two lads from Teesdale , Alan and Neil , in their second season in the Dauphiné were bivouacking high in the fine weather spell and motoring round the guidebook classics . |
| 5 | After anaesthetising the subject 's pharynx with 4% lignocaine spray , gastric sodium and pH microelectrodes ( Ingold Messtechnic , Zurich , Switzerland ) were introduced high into the stomach about 48 cm from the incisors ( this precluded entry into the duodenum after operations such as gastrectomy ) . |
| 6 | Mr Ian Thomas , prosecuting , said feelings were running high between the various doctors just before Christmas . |
| 7 | Feelings were running high among the gipsies because of the imminent disafforestation of Wychwood . |
| 8 | It was from this hippodrome that the four horses now on the façade of S. Mark 's Cathedral in Venice were originally taken ; they were set high above the track in Istanbul . |
| 9 | Some were thrown high into the air . |
| 10 | The log staff-cabins were nestled high on the hill behind the lodge . |
| 11 | His thick straight black hair was parted high on the left and plastered to his skull with hair oil . |
| 12 | Ted Morgan 's car was parked high above the town about five yards down a narrow can-track which led off the road between two steeply sloping fields . |
| 13 | I was woken suddenly when my box was lifted high in the air . |
| 14 | After a mega portage up the beach , camp was made high in the sand dunes , giving a spectacular view of the thundering surf . |
| 15 | By 5 pm the drink was consumed and the body of the kirk was getting high on the spirits ! |
| 16 | Although the moon was riding high in the sky , and shedding a rather weird , eerie glow on the flowering shrubs and various trees edging the green lawn , she was surprised at how much more calm and at ease she felt in the soft , enveloping darkness as she picked her way carefully over the sand . |
| 17 | Her only companion was the bright light that was set high in the wall and was shielded behind a thick glass cover with bars . |
| 18 | They said tension was running high over the mass funeral of 38 of their soldiers whose graves were found close to the convoy 's route . |
| 19 | They heard the river before they saw it , if seeing is the word ; and although this was daunting to most , sounding as though it was running high with the rain , the scouts assured that the noise was actually caused by the shallows of the ford area , where the water was more disturbed . |
| 20 | Feeling was running high in the city against the American ‘ butchers ’ . |
| 21 | One interesting side effect of the fire in Ankh-Morpork concerns the inn-sewer-ants policy , which left the city through the ravaged roof of the Broken Drum , was wafted high into the discworld 's atmosphere on the ensuing thermal , and came to earth several days and a few thousand miles away on an uloruaha bush in the beTrobi islands . |
| 22 | United were awarded a penalty in the first half which was put high over the bar . |
| 23 | Hair was piled high on the crown leaving a heavy strand to expose the ear . |
| 24 | When I started , my desk was piled high with the unopened envelopes . ’ |
| 25 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 26 | By the time that Mrs Thatcher entered Downing Street — after a Winter of Discontent in which rubbish was piled high in the streets and the dead lay unburied — the two ideas had been elided . |