Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a few yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I sat facing the prisoners with an automatic weapon across my knees , I could still see the wounded German Officer a few yards away . |
| 2 | I went over , exchanged greetings with everyone and Graham pointed at an empty table a few yards away and said : |
| 3 | Stray shots buzzing all around , Ace threw herself behind a large fallen stalactite a few yards from the sandbags , just as her ammunition ran out . |
| 4 | Here was a Burger King , untouched , though the crowd must have swept past it as they hastened to torch ( loot is too optimistic a word for these foul establishments ) the Winchells Do-nut restaurant a few yards further on . |
| 5 | A third blazed out its fiery message a few yards further on ; and a fourth and fifth , all along the line , until they disappeared as orange glowworms in the far distance of the French right wing . |
| 6 | One man a few yards ahead of Dexter turned to a colleague and muttered , ‘ Bonking in the viewing room , eh ? ’ with a smutty chuckle . |
| 7 | An old woman with a hunched-up back and a walking-stick was beckoning to her with one hand a few yards away . |
| 8 | Reduced to helpless laughter when the young man a few yards away fell headlong into a gulley , forgetting to look where she was putting her own feet , she trod on something hard — and , to her utter astonishment , found a leprechaun . |
| 9 | He glanced around and noticed a hole in the sandy bank a few yards away . |
| 10 | Spotting the two journalists huddled together in conspiratorial conversation a few yards away , he hauled her off in the opposite direction . |