Example sentences of "from [art] hills " in BNC.
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| 31 | Something has been stealing the farmers ' chickens and carrying off the young sheep from the hills . |
| 32 | When Howard and I were attacked on our way back from the hills , two of the men were carrying Lugers — they 're unmistakable . ’ |
| 33 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 34 | The best view of the vale is from the hills surrounding it ; it looks like a map spread out . |
| 35 | The night was clear , and arched up from the hills with a new moon rising over their crests . |
| 36 | Often there is a seasonal flow of lambs within large or linked enterprises , the lambs being fattened or ‘ finished ’ on the richer lower ground farms away from the hills . |
| 37 | The following morning there was a cool breeze blowing down from the hills ; the sky was the colour of attar of roses . |
| 38 | The home meadows were not so much white with snow as grey with sheep , a bleating , heaving block of woolly bodies , gathered in from the hills in the autumn and brought down to the Castle for feeding and safekeeping in the snows . |
| 39 | Scotch Whisky is inseparable from Scotland … of all the spirits mankind has distilled , refined and enhanced from nature 's huge store of goodness , Scotch Whisky is the noblest … a distillation of the natural riches with which Scotland is so abundantly endowed … clear waters tumbling down from the hills and across the moors , though peat and over granite … fields of golden barley … the cool , pure air . |
| 40 | Pinnacled above an empty land into which , hour by hour , a torrent of steel was being inducted , they sent the tidings from Soutra and Pentland , from the hills south of Traquair and east of Penteiacob to where Thorfinn waited with his army . |
| 41 | They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received . |
| 42 | The noise rumbled back uncertainly from the hills beyond the town . |
| 43 | Remains of a TBF Avenger recovered from the hills near Barbers Point NAS by Shore Aviation Service . |
| 44 | He rang off , and it was only minutes before they heard the chug of the engine of his jeep coming down from the hills in the still of the morning . |
| 45 | ‘ Oh , no , señor — we bring plenty of moss from the hills and cover all the pots so that they appear to be part of the tree . |
| 46 | No-one pretends that preventing further tragedies will be an easy matter , least of all the mountain rescue teams whose job it frequently is to haul the body-bags from the hills . |