Example sentences of "in the hill " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Glasser , there was Annie , study , socialist hikes and camp-fires in the hills outside the city ; for Fraser , there were model aeroplanes , and a mute attraction shared with a boy of lower status , and there was Bert and Ilse . |
| 2 | Well , it was n't an oak-beamed house in the hills , but it was some way out of the city . |
| 3 | But only days before Mr Sok Hay stood in front of his villa speculating on how much his property might be worth in the future , Khmer Rouge guerrillas had ambushed a Phnom Penh army patrol in the hills close by . |
| 4 | Small comfort for those languishing in the prisons or holed up in the hills , one suspects , but their toils have been translated into the stuff of great writing — Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Mario Vargas Llosa and Graham Greene have , in different ways , picked over the moral and political wreckage of Latin America , and you feel it needs writers of their calibre to make sense of it . |
| 5 | After he leave school he had set up some sort of agricultural commune thing , he was always a man like that , saying we were people must make the most of we community skills and thing , but he get squeeze in that farming business and last I hear of him he had gone in the hills and become a guerrilla . |
| 6 | In this bright new world there is no place for the dragon : no one wants the shadow , wants the dark magic which is as old as the caves in the hills where we dwell . |
| 7 | In the hills that side a long valley on the way to Sæbol there is another emergency hut . |
| 8 | It comes from springs in the hills above Malvern , and as these are granite , little of their composition dissolves into the water so it is very low in minerals . |
| 9 | Besides , eradication efforts in Pakistan have merely pushed the opium higher up in the hills and over the border into Afghanistan . |
| 10 | She says one fear is that land in the hills will become redundant . |
| 11 | There is a big fear in the hills that in order to maintain businesses in the lowlands , people will diversify into sheep , and the profitability of sheep in the lowlands will be greater . ’ |
| 12 | A typical Mercedes-owner would live in the hills of Buda , in one of the luxury apartment houses studded with satellite dishes that are constantly springing up . |
| 13 | Everyone else in her class would be spending the holidays riding or playing in the hills or lying in bed until midday . |
| 14 | He would have to heave her blood-stained body away from the door and then scramble over it before he could race out and lose himself in the hills . |
| 15 | Arthur Machen describes in his autobiography how , walking in the hills above Caerleon , he came to a farm , once a Roman villa , where a stone had been found inscribed : ‘ Ave , Julia , carissima conjux ; in aeternum vale . |
| 16 | There was ‘ enough sentiment ’ , he admitted , ‘ enough fire … to lead people to put their lives and their families on the line for the cause ’ , but the cause was a mess ; too many different groups , no means of making political capital out of them , and ‘ guys running around in the hills … illiterate , ignorant campesinos ’ . |
| 17 | A number of factors are conspiring against the South Africans and they profess to be having real problems with the heat and humidity , exacerbated by the fact that Trinidad is experiencing its highest temperatures for a year with bushfires bright in the hills around the Port of Spain area . |
| 18 | Richeaume is in the hills inland from Marseilles and is farmed organically . |
| 19 | Serbian fighters poised in the hills to the south and east of Sarajevo loosed a fresh mortar and machinegun attack on the city early yesterday , briefly knocking out the main television transmitter , forcing Sarajevo Television to switch to emergency power . |
| 20 | At the Dixie Dude , I spent my time between riding in the hills and just sitting on the porch doing nothing . |
| 21 | Although these technical advances will not significantly alter the dominant influence of climate on the length of the growing season or on the difficulty of harvesting crops in the hills , the ideas on which they are based seem to be relevant and applicable to a wide range of hill environments and can accommodate many of the regional variations in farming practice . |
| 22 | Agricultural development in the hills will create systems more sensitive to interference through public access and at the same time because of fencing , scrub clearance , land reclamation , etc. , change the appearance and so increase the potential conflict for recreational opportunity on the one hand and improved viability of agriculture on the other . |
| 23 | It was a golden autumn in the hills about Antietam Creek . |
| 24 | None of the 70,000 English , Scots , Irish , and Anzac troops expected the reception that awaited them , and the rain of death that would greet them from the machine-guns of the Turkish 9th Division , hidden in the hills above . |
| 25 | April 1945 ; British and Commonwealth troops , having rescued Venice continued to arrive at Trieste by the beginning of May , meeting the Yugoslav troops of Tito , in the hills above that City , and fighting against the Germans effectively ceased in Italy . |
| 26 | The trips include a great party night called ‘ Cova Rava ’ , a BBQ at La Siesta up in the hills , a beach party , Sixties night , ‘ Wet and wild ’ and of course , the hilarious Reps ' Cabaret plus lots more . |
| 27 | The centre of the town is pedestrian only , and before even considering the walks in the hills , one can while away many hours just exploring Seefeld 's many shops and cafes . |
| 28 | Late snow beds are rare in the hills , though limited areas may survive on screes in north-facing corries which receive no winter sun and relatively little summer sun . |
| 29 | He was already into the champagne and mansion bracket up in the hills and very soon began his first famous relationship , setting up home with Joan Collins . |
| 30 | The second group are the farmers in the hills , although there are considerable variations between regions and watersheds . |