Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] few yard " in BNC.
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| 1 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 2 | We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield . |
| 3 | He noticed a dark bulk lying a few yards back along the causeway . |
| 4 | In the same 1943 raid , Torquay was also bombed again and the deaf centre escaped with minor blast damage when a bomb fell on the St. Marychurch building a few yards up the road , killing 18 children who were in the building . |
| 5 | Elliott moved the car along the street , staying a few yards back from Goldmam who was twenty feet behind Helen and Nicola , his pace increasing as the distance narrowed , timing it nicely . |
| 6 | Moving a few yards along the tunnel , he found a crevice into which to wedge the second pack , with the sensor directed behind . |
| 7 | Well , we have seen electrical cars in the form of milk floats for many years , and of course they 're particularly suited to intermittent use , stopping and starting every few yards . |
| 8 | The boy was killed instantly and Ballantine was seen later crying a few yards away from his body . |
| 9 | I walked as in a nightmare , aware of nothing but the few yards of tarmac ahead and stopping every few yards . |
| 10 | She had been reminded of a school outing , with the guide leading the party in a crocodile down man-made stairways protected by iron railings , stopping every few yards to bombard his audience with statistics or manipulate the complex lighting and communication system . |
| 11 | ‘ Right , ’ he eventually whispered , ‘ we 'll advance slowly down through the forest , stopping every few yards to listen for the enemy , while at the same time using the trees for cover . |
| 12 | Though it was quieter now , Ruth walked forward with trepidation , stopping a few yards short of it . |
| 13 | Bill and Cy were now standing a few yards from the string . |
| 14 | Benjamin was standing a few yards away from the church , the ladder still in his hand . |
| 15 | When Agnes had retrieved the paperback book she had ‘ forgotten ’ in her booth and reached the street Maxim was standing a few yards away studying the map in a pocket guide of Washington . |
| 16 | Even Maisie , who was now standing a few yards from the window , breathing heavily , seemed to have been paralysed by the sight of him . |
| 17 | Startled , she glanced back to find a man clad in the scarlet overalls and white crash helmet of a driver standing a few yards away . |
| 18 | Sniffy Wilson was crouching a few yards away . |
| 19 | The rest idled along , hopping a few yards and then pausing to nibble or to pass droppings on the warm , sunny grass . |
| 20 | Peeking out , she saw three white-coated figures approach , two hurrying along in front , the last trailing a few yards further back . |