Example sentences of "last few yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Champion picked up his whip and waved it at his mount to encourage him over those last few yards , and Aldaniti responded gamely . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thomas Telford ran the last few yards to the pump site . |
| 5 | Trent waited for a squall to hit , then moved fast , dropping to the ground and crawling the last few yards . |
| 6 | We stared in stunned shock , realising that the pilot must have made one last superhuman effort not to come down right on our heads , but then just could n't manage those last few yards which would have brought them safely onto the runway . |
| 7 | He rushed along London Street and Bridge Road so fast that he puffed and staggered the last few yards to the cottage where he lived with his parents and two younger brothers . |
| 8 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |
| 9 | She ran the last few yards and was breathing heavily , but more out of anxiety than exhaustion . |
| 10 | She struggled up the last few yards and arrived at his side breathless . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The boat floated the last few yards until it actually bumped the side of The Sandhopper . |
| 13 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 14 | George waved and Maxim was released to make the last few yards by himself . |
| 15 | Mounting steps was what Gus found most bewildering at this stage ; his feet made manful efforts , but tended to trail , and he was half-carried the last few yards to the door . |
| 16 | The girl in the conservatory reached out a hand and flicked the switch , lighting them the last few yards , and floodlighting herself at the same time . |
| 17 | Practically sprinting the last few yards to the cottage , he pushed inside and dumped her belongings on the kitchen table before dashing out again and after the Land Rover as it groaned and grunted its way up the track to the colonel 's house , presumably driven by the garage mechanic . |
| 18 | Here McMillan 's draw weight with last stone was perfect but the stone did n't curl as expected over the last few yards . |
| 19 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |