Example sentences of "only [art] [det] yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one instance , a young pilot started a launch with another glider standing only a few yards to the side and just ahead of the take-off point . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't you realise that the enemy are only a few yards from these positions ? |
| 3 | Some distance away , only a few yards from the vast unfinished Anglican cathedral , he found lodgings ( 13 St James 's Road ) with a spinsterish landlady who by origin was a Northern Irish Protestant . |
| 4 | Fred Klepner had been in and out of both Mark 's and Pat Muldoon 's offices , which were only a few yards apart , like an eager beaver . |
| 5 | No doubt from only a few yards out of the clearing , to get a straight view . |
| 6 | At the eastern end of the Ludwigstrasse the street opened out into a small square below the towering walls of the Herzogschloss , a massive fortification dating from the fifteenth century and set back only a few yards from the Danube . |
| 7 | Kohl , on the other hand , will have to live with a politically obtuse gesture that is being compared to his appearance with American President Ronald Reagan , in May 1985 , at a Bitburg cemetery where they laid remembrance wreaths only a few yards from rows of graves of SS soldiers . |
| 8 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 9 | She was only a few yards away . |
| 10 | The lane wound in wide loops all the way to Applewick , but by footpath there was a short cut across a field , through a wood , and then across another field , which came out only a few yards beyond the low bridge . |
| 11 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 12 | By this time we were only a few yards from him and the car had almost stopped . |
| 13 | By the time I got back home that seven pounds felt like seventy and I shall never forget , when I was about eight years old , with only a few yards to go , I dropped the precious parcel . |
| 14 | On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost . |
| 15 | He provides further insight into Operation ‘ Dunlop ’ : ‘ In April Ted Lawrence and myself were flown to Hendon ( from Elgin , Scotland , where 232 Squadron was based ) and , under strict security arrangements , did 130 hours practising take offs before reaching a white line across the strip , seemingly only a few yards ahead of us . |
| 16 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 17 | Buksch , only a few yards away , sees the aftermath and Wright escapes with a lecture . |
| 18 | It was only a few yards to the water . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I was only a few yards away when the car came round the bend and hit the kerb . |
| 20 | The moorland and seemingly endless miles of coastal path ( accessible only a few yards from the hotel ) beckon many walkers . |
| 21 | The first he knew that something was up was when one of the first arrivals had suddenly tripped and fallen in the undergrowth , cursing softly as he did so , only a few yards from the hide . |
| 22 | I went there and found the beach exactly as described , with the clear and tranquil pond only a few yards behind the choppy sea . |
| 23 | Public perception of the war in Europe was of a senseless conflict fought out in the mud and filth of Flanders , with thousands killed each day for the sake of only a few yards of territory soon lost in the next offensive . |
| 24 | She ran downstairs , circling the lift-shaft , certain that he 'd be gone , but when she emerged into the street , he seemed to have moved only a few yards , walking slowly , his head bowed . |
| 25 | Only a few yards away , the Doctor stood with Vanessa and Hazel . |
| 26 | But what was good enough for the Kybergs was hardly likely to be good enough for the Habsburgs , so they built a second wall , only a few yards away . |
| 27 | " Oh boy , " breathed Chuck Sherman , gazing longingly at the impenetrable green wall of tropical foliage slipping past only a few yards from the ship 's rail , " this is going to make the mountains of West Virginia seem a bit tame . |
| 28 | The gates were only a few yards ahead and I staggered up to them and halted among my groaning comrades . |
| 29 | After all the ditches I 'd waded through I was n't going to be defeated now — and only a few yards ahead was the blessed sea . |
| 30 | home but it was only a few yards anyway from . |