Example sentences of "a few yards " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was no match for your proud , muscular strength : after a few yards I was exhausted , and you would take over , shoving the burden along with tireless energy . |
| 32 | Out into the spooky snicket and down a few yards towards the churchyard . |
| 33 | Leading to within a few yards of it was a public right-of-way . |
| 34 | She then went to Victoria Station and bought a return ticket to Epsom , where she took up a position in the pressing crowd on the inside rails at Tattenham Corner , a few yards before the runners reach the straight . |
| 35 | Miss Davison , who was standing close to the rails a few yards from me , suddenly ducked under the railings as the horses came up . |
| 36 | A few yards before the winning post she found yet more courage and stamina and forced herself in front to win by a length . |
| 37 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |
| 38 | No doubt from only a few yards out of the clearing , to get a straight view . |
| 39 | A few yards away , a group of police motorcyclists in their olive-green leathers lounged by their bikes and chatted with friends . |
| 40 | At the eastern end of the Ludwigstrasse the street opened out into a small square below the towering walls of the Herzogschloss , a massive fortification dating from the fifteenth century and set back only a few yards from the Danube . |
| 41 | Just a few yards along the road in the Piaristenkirche , there are further reminders that Austria was the home of the Counter-Reformation with paintings and statues of Saints Francis Xavier , Ignatius de Loyola and John Nepomuk of Prague . |
| 42 | Kohl , on the other hand , will have to live with a politically obtuse gesture that is being compared to his appearance with American President Ronald Reagan , in May 1985 , at a Bitburg cemetery where they laid remembrance wreaths only a few yards from rows of graves of SS soldiers . |
| 43 | The Egyptians are asking for Cleopatra 's Needle , the great granite obelisk of 1500 BC which stands on the Thames embankment just a few yards from the Savoy . |
| 44 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 45 | A few yards down , the passage broadened out and became a mezzanine . |
| 46 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 49 | Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards . |
| 50 | It is perhaps ironic that , with such a volume of water just a few yards from the doors , it had to use steam . |
| 51 | It was described as ‘ extensive and powerful mills and factory buildings ’ , with the added bonus of easy access to the Thames and Severn Canal , a few yards away . |
| 52 | Nellie Taylor was in , but her husband was at Higatt 's , the butchers , just a few yards away . |
| 53 | He noticed a dark bulk lying a few yards back along the causeway . |
| 54 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |
| 55 | It was but a few yards across the first field that he was attacked by three footpads . |
| 56 | The car in front moves forward a few yards , but when Robyn inches forward in turn the young man lays a restraining hand on the Renault 's wing . |
| 57 | One English girl had fallen a few yards behind her companions and , as thirty spectators looked on , lost her daysack , with its camera , cash and diary , in a tug-of-war with the thief . |
| 58 | Their father , Patrick Hamilton , had died dramatically a year ago , blown up by an IRA car-bomb a few yards from what was then their home in Dublin . |
| 59 | A few yards behind them came two of the gardeners and the young detective on duty at the nursery that morning . |
| 60 | Victoria was asleep and the detective paused a few yards away to swing Richard down to the ground . |