Example sentences of "not [num] [noun] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant . |
| 2 | The pups slithered out onto the weedy boulders , not forty feet from the cottage window , and waited expectantly until she reappeared carrying a sizeable fish , which the two of them ate together , wrestling over it among the sea-tangle . |
| 3 | There was a house , set in a quiet road on the outskirts of a commuter town not forty miles from the centre of London . |
| 4 | When he set out today it had been his intention to make for the hills bordering the Golden Valley , but when he got through Blakemere the sweat was dripping from his chin and the sight of a stream tinkling its way not three yards from the road automatically brought his legs off the pedals . |
| 5 | That they were moved , in the ultimate analysis , by a need to satisfy a ‘ desire ’ , in this case to promote the creation of ‘ goodness ’ , detracts not one iota from the credit due to them , or from the value of their contribution . |
| 6 | Jess ignored the protest and pushed on , managing to keep close to the wall and surfacing not two feet from the doors . |