Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] the high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the consonant sounds which make speech intelligible ; therefore it is not surprising that people who lose the high frequencies tend to hear the voice but not to be able to distinguish words . |
| 2 | This is a delicate negotiation and if at a later stage the prospective purchaser who made the highest offer withdraws , the other parties may have lost interest or not wish to participate . |
| 3 | Who got the highest score ? |
| 4 | GULF WAR hero Major James Hewitt is a charmer who loves the high life — and prides himself on his royal friendships . |
| 5 | Hazel Lynes is offering her services as a chauffeuse with a luxurious limousine for a full day to the person who places the highest bid in the auction . |
| 6 | We explore the consequences of placing these players in a two-dimensional spatial array : in each round , every individual ‘ plays the game ’ with the immediate neighbours ; after this , each site is occupied either by its original owner or by one of the neighbours , depending on who scores the highest total in that round ; and so to the next round of the game . |
| 7 | ‘ You snored all night , ’ he said with relish , and Cermait got up and removed himself from this low vulgar company , because you could not stay in a room with people who told the High Queen that you snored . |
| 8 | The claim was made by Tottenham Hotspur chief , Alan Sugar , who told the High Court about soccer 's behind-the-scenes transfer market wheeling and dealing and alleged that former Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough liked a ‘ bung ’ a personal payment in cash . |
| 9 | The claim was made by Tottenham Hotspur chief Alan Sugar who told the High Court about soccer 's behind the scenes transfer market wheeling and dealing and alleged that former Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough liked a ‘ bung ’ a personal payment . |
| 10 | Like the dozens of blue uniformed Serbs , who hold the high ground around outlying Serbian villages to the east of Sarajevo , the bands of Muslims who greeted me on the other side with loud applause expected I would somehow provide aid . |
| 11 | Boswell , who says the high wind blew in their faces , described one of the oarsmen , ‘ a Macleod , a robust , black-haired fellow , half-naked , and bear-headed , something between a wild Indian and an English tar . |
| 12 | Galloway , who received the high accolade of the Cointreau award for innovative design , said the choice of what Kylie should wear was left up to Nicole . |
| 13 | Each party would be entitled to nominate one candidate , and the council would comprise those candidates ( between three and five in number ) who obtained the highest number of votes . |
| 14 | Dr Gluckman , who raised the high numbers of deaths in custody with the state president and senior cabinet ministers in 1991 , published his findings after performing a post mortem examination on behalf of the family of Simon Mthimkulu , who died in custody . |
| 15 | Moreover he was a man of great devotion , who upheld the high ideals of the synagogue 's pulpit , the beauty of its services , as well as the splendour of the building itself . |
| 16 | She was a war widow with one daughter Olive who attended The High School in London Road . |
| 17 | The careers of other scholars of the period who reached the highest mevleviyets likewise suggest that by this time teaching on at least two levels of medreses beyond the Sahn had become customary , the top level being composed of the Suleymaniye medreses and the later imperial medreses , such as those of Selim II and Murad III . |
| 18 | Covenanted donations to charities for a term of more than three years can be offset against tax if you are someone who pays the higher rate of tax . |
| 19 | It used to be taken for granted that the person who earned the highest salary in an organisation was the general manager or managing director : the one at the top , the one that most people look to as the boss . |
| 20 | In terms of Darwinian theory , the most successful groups were those who had the highest reproduction rate . |
| 21 | 6 Who had the highest score in most matches ? |
| 22 | Grace Road has a ‘ starless ’ society now , though that may change in time with the development of 20-year old Ben Smith , who justified the high opinions held of him by making his maiden first-class century in the first game of the season . |
| 23 | Pareto defined an elite at its simplest as those individuals who have the highest indices of excellence in any particular activity , whether it be train-robbing , fishing , political science , or big business . |
| 24 | It is unmarried women in their late 20s who have the highest risk of illegitimate birth . |
| 25 | Special ‘ horn chairs ’ are reserved for those who achieve the highest status in this fiercely competitive society . |
| 26 | It reminded him of pirates and buccaneers and fearless men who roamed the high seas in search of adventure . |
| 27 | The selector in 1970 , and until 1985 , was Elaine Moss , who set the high standards which her successor , Julia Eccleshare , continued . |
| 28 | This will pose particular problems for the Horizons Agency , because we rely very much on the weekly allowance for the people with special training needs , because their output in in terms of o output related funding is relative to the So our income is cutting for the people with the , who need the highest training staff ratio , in in order to succeed . |
| 29 | Whoever gets the highest dot can go |
| 30 | When shall we learn that whoever touches the higher life and well-being of the family still more vitally affects the wider family of the State , and threatens its disintegration … the State as an organized polity , capable of embodying , preserving and promoting the higher life of the nation . |