Example sentences of "[vb past] a few miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | He camped a few miles outside the town and there remained , determined to outface Ras Tafari , whom he discounted as astute but weak . |
| 2 | He drove a few miles out of the village and then pulled off the road to wait for dusk . |
| 3 | Iraq 's soldiers retreated a few miles from the town ; its policemen were still there masquerading as traffic cops . |
| 4 | You nomes in the Store did n't know about my people , and we lived a few miles away . |
| 5 | Liddy was allowed a week 's holiday to visit her sister , who lived a few miles away . |
| 6 | It was at the Camp that Alison met husband Jeff — who actually lived a few miles away back home ! |
| 7 | Here , a family of three died … last year four people from the same family died a few miles furtehr east . |
| 8 | At a more modest level , the office of clerk of the works at Middleham was filled by a Westmorland man , Michael Wharton of Kirkby Thore , whose home lay a few miles from Gloucester 's lordship of Penrith . |
| 9 | Our cargo of cement was destined for a factory at Tima , a town which lay a few miles back from the riverbank . |
| 10 | Wadi Halfa lay a few miles inland . |
| 11 | At a more modest level , the office of clerk of the works at Middleham was filled by a Westmorland man , Michael Wharton of Kirkby Thore , whose home lay a few miles from Gloucester 's lordship of Penrith . |
| 12 | His own alma mater , situated a few miles away , was a very different kind of institution , a dingy tower block , crammed with machinery and lab benches , overlooking a railway marshalling yard and a roundabout on the inner ring road . |
| 13 | Crewkerne , the nearest post town , was the frequent destination of other walks , and on one occasion Wordsworth and Dorothy continued a few miles further to take in Hinton House , the home of Earl Poulett . |
| 14 | Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track . |
| 15 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 16 | Henry VIII impressed the Continent , in the midsummer of 1520 , at the ‘ Field of the Cloth of Gold ’ held a few miles south of Calais , and which lasted four weeks with jousts , summit talks , banquets and entertainment . |