Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [num] mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 2 | I wish I 'd cycled six miles home ! |
| 3 | Well , it had been some while since she 'd walked ten miles in one go — or even five , for that matter , she excused her fluttering heart . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd say we 'd gone two miles , ’ Stephen said . |
| 5 | FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual midnight race had a lucky escape yesterday when their vessel flooded and began to sink three miles from the Isle of Man . |
| 6 | FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual night race cheated death yesterday after their vessel was flooded and began to sink three miles off the Isle of Man . |
| 7 | TWO fishermen were rescued by the crew of another vessel yesterday as their boat began sinking five miles off Aberdeen . |
| 8 | You depended on your car unless you fancied walking two miles to Westerfield to catch the bus . |
| 9 | The victim managed to walk three miles down the road before he was found by police . |
| 10 | This meant travelling 1,400 miles . |
| 11 | The A four one three in Buckinghamshire at Dunton turn between Winslow and Whitchurch did see two mile tailbacks earlier on this afternoon , at that was Aylesbury-bound due to the accident involving a car on fire . |
| 12 | His group of four aimed to cover 15 miles a day — carrying tents and provisions for the journey . |
| 13 | And they said you did point one mile in point O O one hours |
| 14 | James and Pauline MacGregor of Mulbarton , Norfolk , had to drive 180 miles from Auxerre to Lyon before being freed unharmed . |
| 15 | Just for one , for one signature you had to drive twenty miles |
| 16 | The four-year-old leukaemia victim had flown 4,700 miles for the magic moment . |
| 17 | On one occasion , when the Land Rover was only half a mile away , I had to go three miles to reach it . |
| 18 | They had travelled 2,000 miles only to be disappointed by cruel coincidence . |
| 19 | The visible sufferings of the Croats before they had travelled five miles were terrible ; their invisible sufferings , with the prospect of the long march before them , many barefoot and without hope of food before they reached Maribor at the earliest , must have been indescribable . " |
| 20 | His command had travelled seventy miles in thirty hours , and had been reinforced en route by eleven settlers under Arthur Chapman . |
| 21 | He had travelled sixty miles to Liverpool and back on business , and was very tired . |
| 22 | In 1814 he told of the arrival at the Swan Inn of a Mr. and Mrs. Nanny who had travelled 245 miles from Wales to London to get advice from Mr. Astley Cooper and other eminent surgeons there . |
| 23 | On 13th September , the Nez Perce scouts flourished their red blankets to warn of the approach of Sturgis , who had marched sixty miles the previous day . |
| 24 | At first light it became clear that HMS Impregnable had carried five miles across shoal water from the Dean to a position about half way between Langstone and Chichester harbours , approximately half a mile from Hayling Island . |
| 25 | They could have been the same young Russians we had met 4,000 miles away in Fairbanks only the day before . |
| 26 | When rescuers found her , Cherry had struggled four miles through the wood to a track to meet them . |
| 27 | ‘ By lunchtime we were well on our way to reaching this , ’ said Newsline correspondent Stephanie Lessels , ‘ and by 4.45pm we had exceeded 150 miles . ’ |
| 28 | By three-thirty , I had done eighteen miles and was hoping to manage twenty-two . |
| 29 | ‘ One Sierra I looked at had done 112,000 miles but the dealer could n't tell me whether it had been once or twice around the clock . ’ |
| 30 | The XJ 40 had done 10,000 miles and he was glad of an excuse to take it back to the UK for a proper service . |