Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a [adj] yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 2 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 3 | One English girl had fallen a few yards behind her companions and , as thirty spectators looked on , lost her daysack , with its camera , cash and diary , in a tug-of-war with the thief . |
| 4 | With that , bayonets glistening , they began to charge , converging from every angle of the hemisphere ; before they had advanced a dozen yards squadrons of lancers had overtaken them racing for the ramparts . |
| 5 | The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground . |
| 6 | Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back . |