Example sentences of "[adj] mile [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Troy was only forty miles away to the south cast which confirms that this was an important area of early settlement . |
| 2 | I had imagined , for instance , that I would be able to catch a glimpse of Mount Silisili , a mile-high peak in the centre of Samoa , just a few miles away across the water : I had hoped to do so for no better reason than that Mount Silisili would be enjoying precisely the same clock time as here in Tonga , but exactly one day before . |
| 3 | France has gone , and Belgium and Holland , and the German army is only a few miles away across the Channel . |
| 4 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 5 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 6 | Just a few miles away at the Camas camp 1100 refugees with a different story to tell are also preparing for winter . |
| 7 | But just a few miles away at the Bennett House School it 's a different story . |
| 8 | It seems probable that supplies of wire also came from the long demolished Cambridge wire works a few miles away on the River Cam , close to the old road to Dursley . |
| 9 | Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ? |
| 10 | We 're just a few miles away from the Meadowses ’ place , ’ he added , reaching forward to extract a map from the glove compartment , and tossing it on to her lap . |
| 11 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 12 | A highly significant addition during this time was an underwater ridge from the eastern Pacific ; after accretion it pulled apart to form the San Andreas Fault now a few miles inland from the coast . |
| 13 | A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post . |
| 14 | It 's only a few miles further along the road . ’ |
| 15 | Their house was too small to put us up so we stayed in a new motor camp a few miles further along the road , in Portobello ( odd to get all these Edinburgh names , 12,000 miles away ! ) . |
| 16 | The competition made them decide to move to Easingwold , some 22 miles away as the crow flies and nearer 28 miles along the winding roads . |
| 17 | Enthusiasm for botanical discovery took Captain Hutchinson of the Godolphin some miles inland at the Cape of Good Hope , drawn , Miller reports , by the fragrance of beautiful flowers . |
| 18 | Prince Charlie 's servants ushering him urgently on to a boat , looking anxiously over their shoulders to check that no traitor has deceived them and given away the location of the Prince 's departure , when suddenly the Prince spies a dark hole some miles away on the side of a hill . |
| 19 | The cliffs of Lizard Point offer worthwhile easier climbs such as Sirius ( Severe ) , but some miles further along the coast are bigger and more serious ramparts of soapstone at Vellan Head , where Hidden Buttress has distinctly Gogarth-like qualities . |
| 20 | We had to get back to Crinan by nightfall , over 30 miles away to the North , and time was running out . |
| 21 | News of the incident on local radio and television caused a minor panic among residents of the city of Zaporizha , 30 miles away with a population of 900,000 . |
| 22 | But Suzanne Capper was dumped 10 miles away at a golf course near Stockport , Cheshire . |
| 23 | I remember my uncle Tommy Hauxwell , who came to live with us to manage the farm after Father died , telling me about the time Great-Grandad bought a big flock of geese over in Stainmore , which is more than six miles away over the moors . |
| 24 | Six miles away at the RSPB reserve at Loch Garten , you can see the nesting ospreys and in the adjoining Abernethy Forest you can walk in 21,000 acres of mountain , moorland and native pine forest . |
| 25 | Well I says I 'm very sorry but I says it 's six miles away in a store , we do n't attend stores in the evening , I 've nobody to come d I 've got Where the hell do you think I 'm going to sleep tonight ? |
| 26 | Their last , idyllic day on earth had started at magnificent Lake Sabaya , six miles inland from the ocean . |
| 27 | Local Education officials say the nearest school Jamie can attend is 100 miles away in the New Forest . |
| 28 | Nineteen miles away at the Loch Ness Centre , you can see evidence and theories about the elusive monster , and take a ‘ Jacobite Cruise ’ from the Clansman Marina to Urquhart Castle . |
| 29 | As we circled over the city the expanse of Lake Baikal was plainly visible some 45 miles away with the Yenisci River stretching from the lake to its tributary on which the old city of Irkutsk was located . |
| 30 | Six of our residents took part in a driving exercise and we demonstrated that clearly and this is for your benefit we 'll give it to you , although it 's three miles longer to the point where the A sixty one joins the A one , even with the present state of the A one , it is ten minutes quicker to go via the A six five eight , A fifty nine , A one route . |