Example sentences of "[vb past] a few yard " in BNC.
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| 1 | It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches . |
| 2 | A jeep entered the orchard and stopped a few yards away . |
| 3 | He walked down the quay without looking back , but he must have known I was watching him for he stopped a few yards short of his car and very ostentatiously took the incriminating chart from his jacket pocket . |
| 4 | He stopped a few yards away and waited . |
| 5 | I stopped a few yards from the house . |
| 6 | As he shouted , Bodie darted a few yards forward , gun held two-handed in front of him , pointed firmly at the windscreen . |
| 7 | From a position , parked a few yards down the road from the Stones ' house , Bodie watched as Anne Hanvey finally delivered Nick to the house . |
| 8 | She moved towards her own car , parked a few yards away . |
| 9 | Urquhart stopped and turned a few yards ahead of her . |
| 10 | At the time of the alleged crime , the brothers lived a few yards apart in the Perthshire hamlet of Aberargie . |
| 11 | He got a few yards down , he said so I said well have yo you have n't come round to view the house today have you ? |
| 12 | The Audi reversed a few yards . |
| 13 | Here interest is revived by the sight of Sulber Pot and intensified a few yards further where , in a hollow , Nick Pot is seen ; alternative entrances combine below the surface at the top of a vertical shaft that falls sheer to a depth of 370 feet . |
| 14 | They were piled high with branches and logs , and the very old remains of a bonfire lay a few yards away . |
| 15 | What 's more , I intend to say it properly , ’ he declared , reducing speed to turn into a parking area that lay a few yards ahead . |
| 16 | Victoria was asleep and the detective paused a few yards away to swing Richard down to the ground . |
| 17 | At first this bus route ran a few yards further than the trolleybuses , which had run round the Fair Green , and terminated on a small patch of prepared ground alongside the pond at the beginning of Mitcham Common . |
| 18 | Richmann and his remaining man ran a few yards after the departing car , blazing away with a frustrated volley which only succeeded in blowing a few holes out of the bodywork and setting fire to the rear-mounted spare wheel . |
| 19 | He ran a few yards to discover the raiders reversing a stolen grey Japanese jeep through the front of Pursuit , the men 's designer clothing shop in Crown Street . |
| 20 | His staff officers waited a few yards to the rear as the young man stared towards the enemy encampment . |
| 21 | The three young men stood a few yards apart from their confederate in the quiet empty street by the river and waited . |
| 22 | I stood a few yards away from him , my sandalled feet feeling the mossy lawn underneath , — and then he opened his eyes . |