Example sentences of "[prep] the five miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been running , running as hard as he could to break his record for the five miles . |
| 2 | Hospice helpers : Getting ready for the five miles charity fun run organised by Croft Hotels and the Shaftesbury Inn are Sean O'Neill ( 15 ) and Darren Maken ( 15 ) , both from Glengormley with Lynda Watt ( 23 ) from Belfast . |
| 3 | Work on the cut beyond the flight went on vigorously and by October 1811 four of the five miles between Foxton and the north end of the Husbands Bosworth Tunnel had been completed . |
| 4 | One very severe winter , when all public transport was temporarily halted , and cycling quite impossible , Miss Onions walked daily over the five miles of frozen fields between her village and our school . |
| 5 | Over the whole period , the front on the Right Bank never shifted as much as 1 , OOO yards ; for the Germans , a bitter contrast to the five miles they had advanced in the first four days of the offensive . |