Example sentences of "a [adj] miles [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His work was paralleled by that of William Greenwell [ q.v. ] , but whereas Greenwell extended his researches over all the northern English counties and Gloucestershire , Mortimer confined his activities to the region within a few miles of his base at Driffield . |
| 2 | With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home . |
| 3 | He 's now considering tackling the Southern Upland Way , starting in Galloway in the West and walking through the Borders to Cockburnspath , just a few miles from his home in Innerwick . |
| 4 | It was found a few miles from his car on the seashore near Great Yarmouth . |
| 5 | Big enough for a giant X to have mysteriously appeared in mid-town Manhattan and another not a million miles from his flagship shop in Brooklyn . |
| 6 | Now he faces the prospect of having to go to a school more than a hundred miles from his home . |