Example sentences of "[verb] a few yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently my own son was attacked a few yards from Princes Street . |
| 2 | It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches . |
| 3 | In the area in which we are interested , there was a ‘ Sutton Garage ’ and a ‘ Sutton Depôt ’ , the latter actually being located a few yards across the boundary into Carshalton . |
| 4 | A jeep entered the orchard and stopped a few yards away . |
| 5 | He walked down the quay without looking back , but he must have known I was watching him for he stopped a few yards short of his car and very ostentatiously took the incriminating chart from his jacket pocket . |
| 6 | He stopped a few yards away and waited . |
| 7 | I stopped a few yards from the house . |
| 8 | Her car was parked a few yards away from the building . |
| 9 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 10 | As he shouted , Bodie darted a few yards forward , gun held two-handed in front of him , pointed firmly at the windscreen . |
| 11 | But turn a corner , walk a few yards , and suddenly you have stepped back centuries , to the old town , a place where it is sleepy quiet and easy to believe all they say about Aarau 's eventful past . |
| 12 | Most potholes can only be seen a few yards ahead , and cars swerving without warning hardly contribute to road safety . |
| 13 | From a position , parked a few yards down the road from the Stones ' house , Bodie watched as Anne Hanvey finally delivered Nick to the house . |
| 14 | She moved towards her own car , parked a few yards away . |
| 15 | Urquhart stopped and turned a few yards ahead of her . |
| 16 | We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield . |
| 17 | Does the Great Tower seem to be shifted a few yards ? |
| 18 | He noticed a dark bulk lying a few yards back along the causeway . |
| 19 | In the same 1943 raid , Torquay was also bombed again and the deaf centre escaped with minor blast damage when a bomb fell on the St. Marychurch building a few yards up the road , killing 18 children who were in the building . |
| 20 | One English girl had fallen a few yards behind her companions and , as thirty spectators looked on , lost her daysack , with its camera , cash and diary , in a tug-of-war with the thief . |
| 21 | At the time of the alleged crime , the brothers lived a few yards apart in the Perthshire hamlet of Aberargie . |
| 22 | He got a few yards down , he said so I said well have yo you have n't come round to view the house today have you ? |
| 23 | The Audi reversed a few yards . |
| 24 | Elliott moved the car along the street , staying a few yards back from Goldmam who was twenty feet behind Helen and Nicola , his pace increasing as the distance narrowed , timing it nicely . |
| 25 | Moving a few yards along the tunnel , he found a crevice into which to wedge the second pack , with the sensor directed behind . |
| 26 | Here interest is revived by the sight of Sulber Pot and intensified a few yards further where , in a hollow , Nick Pot is seen ; alternative entrances combine below the surface at the top of a vertical shaft that falls sheer to a depth of 370 feet . |
| 27 | Situated on the edge of the pedestrian zone , is the friendly Hotel Haymon , consisting of two Tyrolean chalet style buildings set a few yards apart . |
| 28 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |
| 29 | The boy was killed instantly and Ballantine was seen later crying a few yards away from his body . |
| 30 | About 100 yds after passing confluence of streams cross right-hand path to river where safe , and ascend a few yards to reach well-defined path which leads parallel to right-hand stream , following it up to its source . |