Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Graduate Enterprise Programme can change that by helping you jump each hurdle , rather than letting you in for the high jump . |
| 3 | It 's a short , sharp , you can see it there , you get to the top of it , get up to your roundabout , we hang a right , and the next , it 's a bit of a drag all the way up , you save coming , coming the other way it 's down hill , from just past The Bull , until you get to the , almost to that junction you turn off the top and you 're going up hill , just slowly , but cor , you get up to that , our junction , she drops down , we went straight down through the High Street , and we hung a right in the one way system , turn left , did n't get , quite get to Green Lane , turn left and up we come round the Green Lane , up and in the back way . |
| 4 | The grammar school in Weirwold only takes boys , ’ she said in protest to Zach , ‘ and they never bother to put girls in fer the high school . |
| 5 | There can be no doubt that something of this sort took place at this time in Montreal , and that it forms one of the subconscious inputs in the growing boy 's development , along with the high family traditions and the significance of his names . |
| 6 | ( 8 ) For the purpose of this rule : ( a ) pleadings shall be deemed to be closed 14 days after the delivery of a defence in accordance with Ord 9 , r 2 , or , where a counterclaim is served with the defence , 28 days after the delivery of the defence ; but in an action which has been transferred down from the High Court , pleadings are deemed closed 14 days from transfer . |
| 7 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 8 | A tattooed arm reaches down from the high cab — lovely , real arm , wonderful words ! — and I scale the high steps to sit with my feet on a coil of rope . |
| 9 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
| 10 | She must get him on to his feet and down from the high moor before the impending storm . |
| 11 | From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him . |
| 12 | Shortly before the first autumn snows the flock is brought down from the high pastures . |
| 13 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 14 | Erm with chimney sweeper was waiting down in the high street he was waiting there whoa said Mr to the donkey , the donkey was wondering probably whether he was so without listening to a word of warning he jumped on him |
| 15 | Then Mr. Shelford makes his pathetic statement on referees clamping down on the high tackle . |
| 16 | We can get down on the high street any of these times and it drops us back up here . |
| 17 | The river was at high water and with the green tree-clad Severn grounds sweeping down to the high water mark , it was a sight to behold ‘ Best county in the country , ’ said Billy in a matter of fact way . |
| 18 | These masquers filed solemnly , two-by-two , down to the high table . |
| 19 | ‘ I say to kids , go down to the high street bank , see the bank manager and find out whether he 'll lend you the fifty grand you need to make this record . |
| 20 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 21 | Once ‘ plugged ’ in to the High Court , the possibility arises of using the ordinary system of civil appeals to challenge the decision of the High Court . |
| 22 | Along at the High School where the films were being shown , Charlie Chaplin was starring with Paulette Goddard in The Great Dictator ( 1940 ) and at the Statdtheater George Tabori 's Mein Kampf was playing in the evenings while , during the day , there was a week-long symposium entitled Mein Kampf — Theatre after Auschwitz . |
| 23 | Nottinghamshire originally sought a prohibited steps order to keep the perpetrator away from the family home , but was turned down by the High Court which said it had no option other than to make a residence order . |
| 24 | His first appointment was in Leeds as a poor law surgeon , which he later described as ‘ an ordeal all the medical men of the town go through as the high road to better practice ’ . |
| 25 | Dej and his colleagues did not want to remain the poor peasant cousins of the other Communist states which were going off along the high road to communism . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The praise was complete and we all departed , the minister helicoptering off to the high mountains to give worship to the farmers herding their stock . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's gone off to the High Court , sir . ’ |
| 29 | " I 'm off home , She waved and cycled off down the High Street . |
| 30 | The cliffs themselves are banted back in order to make them safe from rock falls and so forth , but they , they do still suffer from weathering attack by rain , by frost , and the combination of salt from spray and frost is quite damaging , so that anybody who walks along the undercliff knows that in winter , for example , you tend to get a sludge of erm white erm finely divided wet chalk which sledges off erm cliff , particularly those people in recent years who 've walked behind the marina , where it no longer gets washed off by the high tide erm where Brighton Corporation have to keep trying to remove it . |