Example sentences of "only [art] [det] yards " in BNC.
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| 31 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 32 | The dragon , carrying the weight of two men , was only a few yards above the grass . |
| 33 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 34 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 35 | Only a few yards of moonlit turf separated them . |
| 36 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 37 | The foul was committed with the referee only a few yards away and a red card was the inevitable punishment . |
| 38 | The foul was committed with the referee only a few yards away and a red card was inevitable . |
| 39 | ‘ It 's only a few yards away from the shop , so you could easily keep an eye on both . ’ |
| 40 | According to Captain Trentham 's report , he was picked up with a single bullet wound in his right hand while lying in the mud only a few yards in front of his own trench . |