Example sentences of "[prep] the last few yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 2 | It was a slow-going mile , but towards the end one could hear occasional cars along the road ahead and Gareth and Coconut with whoops crashed through the last few yards , again , as the week before , relieved to be back in the space age . |
| 3 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |
| 4 | Here McMillan 's draw weight with last stone was perfect but the stone did n't curl as expected over the last few yards . |
| 5 | She leapt down , carefully shook the sand off it and handed it back to Simon as he and Ben ran across the last few yards towards her . |
| 6 | She ran along the side of the house , round the back of a stone-stilted granary and down behind the dovecot , and then darted across the last few yards to the wall . |