Example sentences of "high [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 An interesting feature of the church is the array of gilded heads high up on the walls of the nave .
2 But what you notice most of all about this astonishing arrangement are the mitre-shaped apertures high up on the walls of the nave and the apse , where , as at Saint-Savin , the old chemin de ronde runs .
3 Every detail was picked out by the floodlights mounted high up on the walls behind protective grilles .
4 He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house .
5 Naturally , the greater part of the volume of this room is within the roof space and a consequence of this is that a small pre-existing ventilation opening , which was sited high up below the eaves of the barn and is now glazed to form a window , has its sill at floor level .
6 After Lescun , the valley of the Aspe grows increasingly tight and stony , a forbidding landscape well epitomized by the manmade fortress of Le Portalet , built high up in the cliffs on the left just before you come to the final French village of Urdos .
7 And how to shoot the rooks nesting high up in the trees with a rifle .
8 The Carabinieri station was at Bagno di Romagna , a small town high up in the Apennines on the borders of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna .
9 He may be placated , an acceptable tribute being pebbles doused in the blood of six young men , then placed high up in the branches of a tree so the mura-muras may reach them .
10 In fact the calls could also have been made by the Seychelles bulbul , a brown thrush-like bird with an orange-red beak which we saw feeding high up in the palms in several places .
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