Example sentences of "[det] mile " in BNC.
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| 1 | After another mile , Chapel-le-Dale is reached , an oasis of greenery in a bleak landscape . |
| 2 | Another mile revealed a track going up to the plateau and a sign pointing straight ahead to ‘ Hamouda ’ — a village which was not on any of the maps . |
| 3 | Those who know better will not rest contented with such a meagre peep of a lake so singularly grand , but will round the hill rather more than another mile to the west , and when the dark lake is full in view , sit down to drink a long look from that favourable point of view . |
| 4 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 5 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe another mile . ’ |
| 7 | Another mile or so , another thirty seconds at the most and they would have dropped harmlessly in the Channel . ’ |
| 8 | After another mile or so , Ellwood saw them pull off into the gated driveway of a hotel . |
| 9 | They walked on , and after what they reckoned to be another mile they paused again and looked back at Dynmouth . |
| 10 | I simply can not go another mile until my thighs are suitably adjusted . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's years since I 've been up here , ’ Vitor said , ‘ but if I remember correctly there 's a good vantage point another mile on . ’ |
| 12 | Within another mile they had both witnessed so many stretchers , so many bodies and so many limbs no longer attached to bodies that no one had the stomach for jokes . |
| 13 | heavy horse , a land horse such as a Suffolk , as most of them were , erm but times were so tight that there was a farmer who used to send his horse with his horseman right past here and go another mile down the road to , to the next village to Kettleborough where there was ano , there were two farriers there |
| 14 | This was a way of defining the parish boundary , and every half mile or so gospels would be read and a cross erected . |
| 15 | Richard Pitman stole a quick look round to assess the closeness of his nearest pursuer — at least twenty lengths — and shortened the reins to keep Crisp together for the final draining half mile . |
| 16 | Liberate , pacemaker for Alphabatim , took the field along at a strong gallop as far as the straight , a good half mile from home , where he fell back and allowed Commanche Run to take up the running . |
| 17 | Corn was shipped along the Stroudwater canal to Oil Mill , although it may well be that the last half mile or so of the Painswick Stream was once navigable . |
| 18 | The Little Avon was used to feed the millpond via a half mile long leat , the mill powered by five large internal wheels , producing between them over 40 hp . |
| 19 | A trail marked with simple stone arches every half mile or so leads to Las Ruinas on top of each , but it 's easy to lose yourself in the maze of secondary trails which weave between the small fields . |
| 20 | ‘ In my lunch hour I run a three and a half mile circuit of the village where I work . |
| 21 | He began to whistle , and taking his hands of the handlebars he negotiated the last half mile home without touching them again . |
| 22 | On the other side of the mill , in contrast , was a deep high banked muddy trough meandering the last half mile into the Severn estuary . |
| 23 | passengers are now taken on a picturesque two and a half mile long trip to Holywell Halt and beyond . |
| 24 | It was well over a half mile long , consisting of 2 military bands ; more than 100 mounted men ; well over 100 armed retainers on foot ; 50 Irvine archers in Lincoln green outfits ; the Duke of Atholl with a company of his Atholl Highlanders ; several open carriages ; trumpeters ; a jester on a mule ; Lord Eglinton as Lord of the Tournament ; Lady Jane Seymour as the Queen of Beauty ; and the 13 competing knights . |
| 25 | The one and a half mile John Sturgeon Selling Plate , the second to last race of the evening , was hardly the stuff of headlines . |
| 26 | Arriving late to find all moving stairways were out of order a panicky half mile sprint was needed to catch our plane . |
| 27 | And now there was rarely a day when she did n't walk the half mile over the headland to sit in Alice 's kitchen and talk and watch while she worked . |
| 28 | The village continues for a further half mile to the turnoff for Sutton Hall , a small Georgian residence , now privately owned . |
| 29 | One of the intruders was straggling some half mile behind the rest , so this was attacked by the newly-promoted Flt.Lt . |
| 30 | At 2.50 , the first of the royals will travel the half mile from the castle gates in the wedding procession . |