Example sentences of "[prep] a hundred yards [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a cave very accommodating for beginners in speleology and indeed for ordinary walkers with no such aspirations who , aided only by a torch , can penetrate quite easily for a hundred yards without meeting any difficulty . |
| 2 | Further down the gill , on a high bank on the south side and at the base of a low cliff , is the opening of Capnut ( or Katnot ) Cave where a roomy passage can be followed without encountering difficulties other than darkness for a hundred yards before returning to daylight . |
| 3 | This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road . |
| 4 | There are three bars within a hundred yards of each other . |
| 5 | He was subsequently ordered by a court not to go within a hundred yards of her . |
| 6 | He still had I am a Fugitive in mind and he recalled how in that ‘ job ’ ( in itself a revealing word ) ‘ every man and woman within a hundred yards of camera range is acting his head off , figuring that he is a Clark Gable , or a Garbo ! ’ |
| 7 | The drive snaked across the flank of the hill to a levelled clearing which had once been the site of a mine ; a giant stack still stood within a hundred yards of their door . |
| 8 | It was hours before the first students managed to permeate through the streets and come to within a hundred yards of the Mar Girgis . |
| 9 | Others who made it to within a hundred yards of the bridge … count themselves lucky to have survived … |
| 10 | Its guidlines state that the bypass would have to be within a hundred yards of the road or the conditions intolerable before the property would be bought , though the Judge Mr Justice Latham said that in his view those guidelines were a shambles . |
| 11 | You attach a transmitter to the jesses and keep the receiver with you — this can pinpoint a bird within a hundred yards over a radius of fifteen miles . |