Example sentences of "few yards [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two bodies were lying face down on the grass a few yards apart . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The three young men stood a few yards apart from their confederate in the quiet empty street by the river and waited . |
| 5 | At the time of the alleged crime , the brothers lived a few yards apart in the Perthshire hamlet of Aberargie . |
| 6 | As he shouted , Bodie darted a few yards forward , gun held two-handed in front of him , pointed firmly at the windscreen . |
| 7 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 8 | The explosions seemed just a few yards away . |
| 9 | A jeep entered the orchard and stopped a few yards away . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Suddenly there was the unmistakable swish of a mortar bomb , then the explosion a few yards away . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | A few yards away , a group of police motorcyclists in their olive-green leathers lounged by their bikes and chatted with friends . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Nellie Taylor was in , but her husband was at Higatt 's , the butchers , just a few yards away . |
| 20 | Victoria was asleep and the detective paused a few yards away to swing Richard down to the ground . |
| 21 | She was only a few yards away . |
| 22 | When he came to the surface , by some obscure miracle his leash had held , and his board was bobbing about a few yards away . |
| 23 | Nearer , just a few yards away , were our tents , their mouths pointing away from me , out of the wind . |
| 24 | Cars and small vans , with only disrepair in common , were head to tail , headlights burning , a few yards away . |
| 25 | Just a few yards away were dunes spiked with palms . |
| 26 | An old tramp was sitting on a rustic seat in the sunshine a few yards away , and she saw him toss an envelope on to the grass . |
| 27 | In a prison-camp the world you wanted to get to was visible all the time and , although you did not live in it , you knew that it was only a matter of some barbed wire and a few yards away . |
| 28 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 29 | A few yards away , Anthea Darnell was just rising , giving Lee a charming smile . |
| 30 | 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 . |