Example sentences of "[verb] for a mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | McKitten , 26 , overtook Mr Beard , forcing him to brake sharply , then drove for a mile on the wrong side of the road , the court at Chester-le-Street , Co Durham , heard . |
| 2 | We walked for a mile or so , easily outpacing the vehicle which was soon just a pair of yellow lights back down the valley . |
| 3 | From Dent , the street opposite the Sedgwick memorial is taken ; this soon becomes a country lane followed for a mile and a half to Deepdale Methodist Chapel , ignoring a signposted branch to Ingleton after a mile . |
| 4 | The Range Rover left it behind quickly on a steep road which wound up in hairpin bends for a mile before levelling out on the road to Haverfordwest . |
| 5 | A larger number of bigger girls and women were in waiting at one of the locks , where the passengers are politely informed they may walk for a mile ; they had large pitchers and small jugs , and we are all favoured with pressing invitations to have ‘ sweet milk . ’ |
| 6 | Beyond , towards open country , the pavements widened for a mile and blackthorn hedges , brambles , old man 's beard and nettles concealed little strips of garden , ribbons of green , bordered by hydrangeas , leading to fanciful pavillons . |
| 7 | For a short stroll , the path to Loch Eilde Mor can be climbed for a mile to get a perfect full-length view of Loch Leven . |
| 8 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 9 | An inquiry is underway into how a tube train with passengers on board took off without a driver and travelled for a mile and through a station before being halted by an automatic signal . |