Example sentences of "for [det] a mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside and beneath the alley , Mucky Beck rushed for half a mile past walled mill-ponds , wasteland and cinder piles all the way from Shearbridge Road to Cheshum Street . |
| 2 | It here plunges for half a mile over massive limestone steps in a wide channel flanked by trees : a beautiful sight , always impressive and , in times of spate , awesome . |
| 3 | At Hell 's Cauldron an opening at the base of the cliff alongside is one of a series of cave entrances piercing the banks of the ravine for half a mile upriver . |
| 4 | It penetrates Ingleborough for half a mile ; formerly open to the public , it is now closed . |
| 5 | The interior of the cave soon admits daylight from a vertical shaft on the moor above , Little Douk pot , and then meanders in darkness for half a mile to its entrance at Middle Washfold , due south over the wall in the next allotment where an isolated outcrop of limestone makes a white scar on the dark moor . |
| 6 | From the left bank of the canal , the green fields of Gloucestershire swept up in a gentle rise for half a mile , there to be a terminated by a line of stately elms . |
| 7 | In the woods between Lāmri and U hu where the path drops steeply down , the stream had frozen solid right across the path and we had to pick our way for half a mile , across the ice . |
| 8 | MEESON TIMES : Chased leaders for half a mile then faded in similar event latest when 6l 6th to Miss Bell Ringer ( Leicester 6f , Fm ) . |
| 9 | After entering the wood keep straight on for half a mile . |
| 10 | From the viaduct follow the road south for half a mile to the main Enniskillen to Belleek road . |
| 11 | Stalls were set up to a considerable depth on either side of the main road , which swelled out like a sausage shaped balloon for half a mile or so and then closed in again . |
| 12 | The party of three canoeists , aided by local walkers dragging the canoes , made its way over common land for half a mile to a car . |
| 13 | He had a bad moment between Chiswick and Richmond when a police car stayed on his tail for half a mile . |
| 14 | ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left . |
| 15 | We ran flat out for half a mile before we could throw them off . ’ |
| 16 | She had no problem in finding the turning which led her along an unadopted road for half a mile before she drove through open gates up a steeply ascending drive past lawns on several different levels until she finally reached a gravelled circle in front of Penry 's house . |
| 17 | Sonny Worthington , who 's twenty five , was beaten up and dragged for half a mile by the car in Banbury almost two weeks ago . |
| 18 | The portal of Palazzo Vimercati is no ordinary door , but the rarest and one of the most elegant Gothic Renaissance doors for many a mile . |
| 19 | In the heart of the Pennines , Skipton ( Table 2.9 ) , traditionally the centre of Craven , was the only place for many a mile recognisable as a town in any real sense ; its population can not have reached 500 . |
| 20 | As we have stood enraptured on the mountain peaks , threaded our way through the bosky dells and trod for many a mile the vast moorlands , we have often felt it to be indeed a land of glory and beauty . ’ |