Example sentences of "[noun] [art] few [noun pl] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was lounging back against the tree trunk a few yards away , consulting his compass and studying the map intently . |
| 2 | I parked the car a few doors away from the Newton house , which looked neat enough behind a freshly painted fence , and ran the gauntlet of half a dozen youngsters who were all offering to mind my car . |
| 3 | Keeping the perimeter fence a few yards away on his left , Angel One loped silently along until he reached its north-western limit . |
| 4 | The census of 1785 confirms that the Titfords were still on Pig Street , not having been driven out by the noise of falling stone or splintering wood ; not that noise would have been anything unusual for them — they already had Thomas Addams ' blacksmith 's shop down the street , and the ringing sound of metal on metal emanating from there must have mingled nicely with the constant clip-clop of horses ' hooves as Henry Webley went about his business as the Bristol carrier a few doors away . |
| 5 | One startling apparition a few seats away was masked , and got up like a Chinese mandarin , with clacking claws for hands emerging from generous silk sleeves . |
| 6 | For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions . |
| 7 | If the sale had gone ahead , Rio Tinto would have developed Wheal Concord , refining its ore in the modern processing plant at Wheal Jane a few kilometres away . |
| 8 | They had caught two men breaking into an antique shop a few miles away from Wellingham , a former private house at the side of the road . |
| 9 | Brod 's premises were on St James 's Street a few yards away from Christie 's . |
| 10 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 11 | The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow . |
| 12 | The police had traced the dinghy to Londoners who owned a weekend cottage a few miles away up the Welsh coast . |
| 13 | Ziba 's 35-year-old brother , Meho , who worked at the dairy and fought with the Sarajevo defence force , had been killed during the night in a skirmish a few blocks away . |
| 14 | He turned his head , and saw a human foot a few inches away . |
| 15 | It was certainly impressive from the cool , dark hilltop a few leagues away , where two figures were watching with considerable interest . |
| 16 | Before they could reach him , however , he was borne aloft like a javelin and carried to the quayside a few yards away where he was dumped unceremoniously into the murky waters to a great cheer from those who were close enough to witness the event . |
| 17 | There was a moped leaning against a mud wall a few feet away . |
| 18 | One of the Maguire girls Ellie or Molly , I think it was Molly , they were all fine looking , tall women — came out to do her morning business and hunkered down under an apple tree a few feet away from Eddie . |
| 19 | Suddenly there was the unmistakable swish of a mortar bomb , then the explosion a few yards away . |
| 20 | ‘ I want to make it absolutely clear , ’ said Angalo slowly , as a great feathery head nabbled in the water a few inches away , ‘ that if you 're suggesting that we ride on a geese — ‘ |
| 21 | We may complain about it many times , but think of its wonderful facility of allowing us to phone that relative in the United States , or a friend a few miles away , or the butcher , or our business , and so on . |
| 22 | It is currently up on the Transputer and the 80386 , with 68000 family , ARM RISC and MIPS R3000 processors a few months away . |
| 23 | Now imagine that it is processor-independent and is already running on 80386 and 80486 , and Transputers , with the 68000 family , ARM RISC and MIPS R3000 processors a few months away . |
| 24 | It is currently up on the Transputer and the 80386 , with 68000 family , ARM RISC and MIPS R3000 processors a few months away . |
| 25 | Now imagine that it is processor-independent and is already running on 80386 and 80486 , and Transputers , with the 68000 family , ARM RISC and MIPS R3000 processors a few months away . |
| 26 | The shelling had stopped now and it was certain that someone had been killed or wounded , maybe the chap in the next slit trench a few feet away . |
| 27 | During my short conversation with the Colonel , I was being observed rather suspiciously by three of his Officers a few feet away , sitting on top of their slit trenches performing their ablutions . |
| 28 | Everyone engaged on an escape scheme enjoyed the furtiveness necessary for good security : the concealment of tell-tale evidence under coats a few feet away from unsuspecting sentries , the private knowledge kept from other members of the hut . |
| 29 | Her Suzy Lamplugh Trust personal rape alarm was lying on the ground a few feet away . |
| 30 | The guard glanced down the deserted street , and now caught the glimmer of moonlight on something lying in the mud a few yards away . |