Example sentences of "[verb] a few [adj] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | Night fell , and after walking a few more miles down country roads , they finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river . |
| 2 | On the telephone , they used rhyming slang in case they were overheard ; at the celebrations , the fine crystal glass and good company belied the hazards of patrolling a few dozen miles away . |
| 3 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 4 | Given the choice , she 'd really rather have had an assignment in Outer Mongolia or possibly Timbuktu — maybe by putting a few thousand miles between herself and Dane she 'd manage to get him out of her mind . |
| 5 | William Booth had once instructed that if anyone notified Headquarters of an intended engagement they should " Put a few hundred miles between them . |
| 6 | See you can allow a few extra miles for getting |
| 7 | ‘ This area , Miss Williams , might encompass a few square miles of countryside , but it will also take in what is now a very unsightly rubbish tip . |
| 8 | American employees have always been more willing than Europeans to move a few thousand miles to follow a job , or take a better one . |