Example sentences of "[art] few yard [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked as in a nightmare , aware of nothing but the few yards of tarmac ahead and stopping every few yards . |
| 2 | He ran the few yards to the fence . |
| 3 | PC Golby , still in a state of shock and incredulity , ran the few yards to the turnpike cottage . |
| 4 | She was heavily veiled and masked to walk the few yards to the women 's dining majlis , which was , of course , in the house of Sheikha Grandmother . |
| 5 | They began to bark as she walked the few yards to his front door . |
| 6 | It was Blackberry who bullied the stupefied Pipkin to his feet and forced him to limp the few yards to the gravel spit . |
| 7 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 8 | Ashamed of her excess of imagination , she let herself out into the street and covered the few yards to her car under the trees . |
| 9 | With a prayer of thankfulness I rowed the few yards to her , made fast the dinghy to a cleat on her transom , and climbed on board . |
| 10 | He punted the few yards to the shore . |
| 11 | It was but a few yards across the first field that he was attacked by three footpads . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In one instance , a young pilot started a launch with another glider standing only a few yards to the side and just ahead of the take-off point . |
| 14 | It was only a few yards to the water . |
| 15 | His staff officers waited a few yards to the rear as the young man stared towards the enemy encampment . |
| 16 | Surely such lazy car drivers who park directly beside bus stops rather than walk a few yards to a shop , should be prosecuted before a fatal accident results from their thoughtless actions . |
| 17 | Turn right after 1/2 mile into Kyber car park , then turn left after 30 yds through gate ( but first detour ahead a few yards for view of Glasgow ) on track signposted Craigend Castle ( a ) . |
| 18 | This is a matter of constantly exploring out a few yards on almost every circle to try to find the best possible area of lift . |
| 19 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |
| 20 | A few yards on they turned a corner and when she next looked back Rain saw the Tunisian again . |
| 21 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 22 | The three of them began to creep slowly down the hill , moving from tree to tree , but no more than a few yards at a time . |
| 23 | The dragon , carrying the weight of two men , was only a few yards above the grass . |
| 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 | A few yards of the old Whitehorse Road line were brought back into use and a crossover installed at Talbot Road , so that cars could stand clear of the busy road junction , as from 17 November . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The hotel was a shell , the roof having collapsed completely , but a few yards of the verandah ceiling remained intact and under it I spent the most wretched night of my life , standing in a dry corner , listening to the drenching rain and howling wind and breathing in the acrid fumes of the recent fire . |