Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] a few yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her underwear and tights , which had been ripped off , were found a few yards away . |
| 3 | Her car was parked a few yards away from the building . |
| 4 | Recently my own son was attacked a few yards from Princes Street . |
| 5 | Benjamin was standing a few yards away from the church , the ladder still in his hand . |
| 6 | When Agnes had retrieved the paperback book she had ‘ forgotten ’ in her booth and reached the street Maxim was standing a few yards away studying the map in a pocket guide of Washington . |
| 7 | Sniffy Wilson was crouching a few yards away . |