Example sentences of "a few yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gianni and Ursula leapt on just as the doors were closing , but Monique , who was now a few yards behind them and whose movements were hampered anyway by her arthritis , was left standing there as the train moved out . |
| 2 | In one instance , a young pilot started a launch with another glider standing only a few yards to the side and just ahead of the take-off point . |
| 3 | Beware of snow showers , because they can reduce visibility to a few yards , making a safe landing impossible . |
| 4 | This is a matter of constantly exploring out a few yards on almost every circle to try to find the best possible area of lift . |
| 5 | ‘ Balls ’ was the next word she came across , a few yards further on . |
| 6 | It seemed all over in the 63rd minute when Clough , a few yards outside the penalty area , volleyed a headed clearance instantly into the roof of the net before Hardwick could move a muscle . |
| 7 | Sid had chosen a spot at the top of the orchard a few yards from the wall surrounding Brigade H.Q ‘ We can have two trenches with one entrance , ’ he said , ‘ Your trench there , and my trench here , ’ drawing a diagram with the point of his bayonet . |
| 8 | The explosions seemed just a few yards away . |
| 9 | We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield . |
| 10 | A jeep entered the orchard and stopped a few yards away . |
| 11 | The sailors stopped digging when the trench was about one foot deep , then they sat down and lit up their cigarettes , gazing around the orchard , taking not the slightest notice of the mortar team just a few yards from them . |
| 12 | They both soon scattered when a mortar bomb burst at the entrance to the orchard , sending shrapnel whistling through the trees and thudding into the walls of the little cottage just a few yards away . |
| 13 | The two bodies were lying face down on the grass a few yards apart . |
| 14 | The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's what I was on about , Boyo , ’ Taff answered , pointing to the spot a few yards away where the mortar team had been this morning . |
| 16 | As I entered the orchard , a few yards from the entrance the farmer was tending to two badly wounded cows . |
| 17 | A few yards through the gloom I could make out the shape of a hedge and what appeared to be the entrance to a sunken road . |
| 18 | Suddenly there was the unmistakable swish of a mortar bomb , then the explosion a few yards away . |
| 19 | Twenty-third July — sitting under a tree a few yards from my slit trench writing a letter to my parents in Glasgow . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't you realise that the enemy are only a few yards from these positions ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The group of houses are now just a few yards away and at the sight of the French civilians lining the route , all tiredness is now forgotten and a spring has appeared in our step . |
| 23 | Turn right after 1/2 mile into Kyber car park , then turn left after 30 yds through gate ( but first detour ahead a few yards for view of Glasgow ) on track signposted Craigend Castle ( a ) . |
| 24 | 200 yds later , by another stile , fence veers half right , path turns right here , still uphill and now away from fence and bends right a few yards later up to stile into field . |
| 25 | Some distance away , only a few yards from the vast unfinished Anglican cathedral , he found lodgings ( 13 St James 's Road ) with a spinsterish landlady who by origin was a Northern Irish Protestant . |
| 26 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 27 | The hype surrounding Justin v John Fashanu did not materialise but Justin came on , only to miss from a few yards as Sanchez intervened , leading to his injury and the booking of the Wimbledon physio . |
| 28 | Instead of the screams of starving men , there were prayers , and the prayers passed into silence as one by one they died of starvation a few yards away from food . |
| 29 | Fred Klepner had been in and out of both Mark 's and Pat Muldoon 's offices , which were only a few yards apart , like an eager beaver . |
| 30 | 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 . |