Example sentences of "[verb] [art] few yards [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches . |
| 2 | A jeep entered the orchard and stopped a few yards away . |
| 3 | He stopped a few yards away and waited . |
| 4 | Her car was parked a few yards away from the building . |
| 5 | As he shouted , Bodie darted a few yards forward , gun held two-handed in front of him , pointed firmly at the windscreen . |
| 6 | Most potholes can only be seen a few yards ahead , and cars swerving without warning hardly contribute to road safety . |
| 7 | She moved towards her own car , parked a few yards away . |
| 8 | Urquhart stopped and turned a few yards ahead of her . |
| 9 | We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield . |
| 10 | He noticed a dark bulk lying a few yards back along the causeway . |
| 11 | At the time of the alleged crime , the brothers lived a few yards apart in the Perthshire hamlet of Aberargie . |
| 12 | He got a few yards down , he said so I said well have yo you have n't come round to view the house today have you ? |
| 13 | Elliott moved the car along the street , staying a few yards back from Goldmam who was twenty feet behind Helen and Nicola , his pace increasing as the distance narrowed , timing it nicely . |
| 14 | Here interest is revived by the sight of Sulber Pot and intensified a few yards further where , in a hollow , Nick Pot is seen ; alternative entrances combine below the surface at the top of a vertical shaft that falls sheer to a depth of 370 feet . |
| 15 | Situated on the edge of the pedestrian zone , is the friendly Hotel Haymon , consisting of two Tyrolean chalet style buildings set a few yards apart . |
| 16 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |
| 17 | The boy was killed instantly and Ballantine was seen later crying a few yards away from his body . |
| 18 | Her underwear and tights , which had been ripped off , were found a few yards away . |
| 19 | The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground . |
| 20 | They were piled high with branches and logs , and the very old remains of a bonfire lay a few yards away . |
| 21 | What 's more , I intend to say it properly , ’ he declared , reducing speed to turn into a parking area that lay a few yards ahead . |
| 22 | Benjamin was standing a few yards away from the church , the ladder still in his hand . |
| 23 | When Agnes had retrieved the paperback book she had ‘ forgotten ’ in her booth and reached the street Maxim was standing a few yards away studying the map in a pocket guide of Washington . |
| 24 | Startled , she glanced back to find a man clad in the scarlet overalls and white crash helmet of a driver standing a few yards away . |
| 25 | Victoria was asleep and the detective paused a few yards away to swing Richard down to the ground . |
| 26 | At first this bus route ran a few yards further than the trolleybuses , which had run round the Fair Green , and terminated on a small patch of prepared ground alongside the pond at the beginning of Mitcham Common . |
| 27 | Sniffy Wilson was crouching a few yards away . |
| 28 | She had to stop a few yards later , sobbing for breath . |
| 29 | The three young men stood a few yards apart from their confederate in the quiet empty street by the river and waited . |
| 30 | I stood a few yards away from him , my sandalled feet feeling the mossy lawn underneath , — and then he opened his eyes . |