Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , it wo n't matter for the few yards back to the cottage … ’ |
| 2 | I was no match for your proud , muscular strength : after a few yards I was exhausted , and you would take over , shoving the burden along with tireless energy . |
| 3 | After a few yards the greenery opened out again beside a small lake . |
| 4 | After a few yards the sea appears once more on your left , and in the distance , a railway viaduct crossing the bay . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've never done this before have we , love , ’ Dan said , remembering after a few yards to change onto the correct side of the road . |
| 6 | swinging wildly over to the left , while the other ground to a halt on the gravel after a few yards . |
| 7 | The gap between the two men had closed to a matter of a few yards . |
| 8 | After the 1915 offensives , the troops had come to believe that if Pétain called for an attack there must be some point to it , that it would not be a senseless sacrifice of lives in the way of those over-ambitious generals , out to gain recognition from the conquest at any price of a few yards of enemy trench . |
| 9 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 10 | The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track . |
| 11 | It goes straight for a few yards and then bends round the corner into blackness . |
| 12 | For a second his mind was off the ball , leaving it free for Patrick Lombard to belt in and whip it away , dribbling it for a few yards , then powering it to Mike , who , relishing his new freedom at Number Two , took it up field . |
| 13 | On reaching the country road turn left to go along the road for a few yards before taking a right . |
| 14 | He urged his horse on home , and for the first time that day it responded by breaking into a trot for a few yards , until it decided that it was more comfortable to walk . |
| 15 | These right-angled bends in the road , whatever the date of the enclosure award may be , reflect some stage in the medieval colonisation of the parish when a new furlong , brought in from the waste perhaps in the twelfth or the thirteenth century , cut across the direct path to the next village and forced it to make a sudden turn for a few yards before resuming its onward course . |
| 16 | Snappy bounded after her for a few yards , then scampered away to follow his mistress . |
| 17 | When it got within spitting distance of Mafouz , who was now standing , arms loosely apart , mouth open , as if hypnotized by the thing 's movements , it did a sharp turn to the left , bounced along horizontally for a few yards , and then snarled up and down to land on the unfortunate boy 's head . |
| 18 | He walked on for a few yards , stooped and picked something up . |
| 19 | For a few yards now she had been aware of a car cruising behind her . |
| 20 | When he came to the surface , by some obscure miracle his leash had held , and his board was bobbing about a few yards away . |
| 21 | I mean we are only talking about a few yards difference . |
| 22 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |
| 23 | Shirley was a good runner , and she caught Heather up a few yards from the fire . |
| 24 | Leading to within a few yards of it was a public right-of-way . |
| 25 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 26 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 27 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 28 | Allen cast around and within a few yards further came upon a man-made path , narrow and winding , but in frequent use . |
| 29 | There was a multitude of small tracks that began promisingly and died to nothing within a few yards , tracks that might be the paths of men or of deer , or wolves , or wild boar . |
| 30 | Within a few yards of the school are a filling station , fire station , police HQ , and the entrance to the rail station and Great Eastern Square shopping complex car park . |