Example sentences of "within [art] stone [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the trees are still leafless , I do not get a glimpse of the hall until it is within a stone 's throw , so hidden is it by a dense screen of boughs and underwood ; but I know it is near at hand , for an ancient archway spans the path leading to the farmyard , and just beyond the Tudor gateway bearing several clear-cut coats of arms . |
| 2 | The Hotel Mercure , within a stone 's throw of the Cherbourg ferry terminal , offers modern , anonymous comfort , and a very reasonable meal for about FF100. ( 010 33 33 44 01 11 ) . |
| 3 | There were far more profitable houses to burgle within a stone 's throw of her own modest establishment . |
| 4 | Wherever we live , be it within a stone 's throw of Sellafield or in an area seemingly unaffected by the dumping of waste , we must not fall into the out-of-sight , out-of-mind approach adopted by much of industry . |
| 5 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 6 | What self-respecting photographer would have risked his new-fangled box camera within a stone 's throw of a ‘ free fight ’ ? |
| 7 | A butcher hard by in the village , and the parsonage-house within a stone 's throw ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ In many instances , ’ writes Godwin , ‘ these hotbeds fever and vice are so effectually hidden by goodly houses that the inhabitants of the latter are scarcely aware of the poverty and disease which exist within a stone 's throw from their own doors . ’ |
| 9 | Jean-Claude told me that is was here he had wished Montaine to be laid , not in the familiar old churchyard within a stone 's throw of the house . |
| 10 | Still within a stone 's throw of the Scentmakers ’ Bazaar . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Crowley , whose brief is to spend 40 days in each of the boroughs , says the Stockton area covers most aspects of the river with two entirely different environments to be found within a stone 's throw of each other . |