Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] few yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 2 | She ran downstairs , circling the lift-shaft , certain that he 'd be gone , but when she emerged into the street , he seemed to have moved only a few yards , walking slowly , his head bowed . |
| 3 | Pedestrians scampered blindly across the road to catch waiting buses , the cars jerked ahead a few yards every time the traffic lights turned to green . |
| 4 | Maxim had them set up a few yards away , thanked the boys gravely , and they sat down . |
| 5 | And while th they 're down there , can they put a co re-bend that cornerstone , we used to have a cornerstone , it 's got pushed into the dike , and it 's gone down a few yards |
| 6 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 7 | 82 year old Ivor James was knocked down a few yards from his home . |