Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] mile " in BNC.
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1 | Etienne Saqr , who used the name Abu Arz , the Father of the Cedars ’ — one of the more psychopathic of the minor Christian militia leaders — commanded a group which specialised in cruelty , whose men tied Palestinian prisoners to the backs of taxis and then dragged them 12 miles up the motorway to Jounieh . |
2 | Their route will take them 230 miles across the Nares Straight towards west Greenland . |
3 | BLUE PLANET takes you 350 miles into space to view the breathtaking sight of our world , surrounded by the narrow , fragile band of atmosphere that supports life on earth . |
4 | ‘ True , ’ said Isambard , grinning at him , ‘ it 's a pity to think I might have been dead by this , and you ten miles away on your road home . |
5 | ‘ We will take you five miles . ’ |
6 | They 'll take you 250 miles further on to Madrid , then you catch a plane back . |
7 | But then you start to overtake him seventy miles an hour or so . |
8 | We took a rickety public bus with him twenty miles out of town and then struck out on foot for several hours into the wilderness . |
9 | But when he reached the place where the cart had been , which had brought him twenty miles from the nearest town , it had been stabled out of sight . |
10 | Then he held two men friends of his estranged wife at gunpoint and forced them to drive him 200 miles to her secret address at Barrow-in- Furness , Cumbria . |
11 | His passenger helped pull him out and then carried him two miles away across fields from the accident scene . |
12 | Nelson Mandela is the kind of celebrity that agents , publishers and film-makers dream of : a man whose seventieth birthday party filled Wembley , who outstrips Mother Theresa as a universal symbol of virtue and who has backstreets named after him 6,000 miles from home is not a difficult commodity to package . |
13 | The villagers tied up his wounds as best they could and carried him thirty miles , non-stop , to the Haldwani hospital , where he died shortly after admission . |
14 | It seemed a forlorn hope that any taxi-driver , especially with the limitation of petrol-rationing , should consider a fare which would take him seven miles out of the town on New Year 's Eve , but incredible luck was with us ! |
15 | Call it fifty miles . |
16 | The simple price structure of Parcelforce Standard ensures it is just as cost-effective to send a parcel 300 miles as it is to sent it 30 miles . |
17 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
18 | Boswell measured the water journey from Glenelg as twelve miles ; the boatman called it six miles , confusing old logical Johnson with the assertion that a mile on the land equated to two on the sea . |
19 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
20 | You can hear it five miles away . |
21 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
22 | Unfortunately , a member of the tournament committee heard this picturesque statement of Jack 's intentions — not difficult , you could probably have heard it twenty miles away at the PGA headquarters — and of course the stockbroker was a close friend of the sponsor . |
23 | Twenty let's make it twenty miles an hour . |
24 | The distance is given as 212 miles in the AA book — call it 200 miles . |
25 | With our three kids , all under six , settled in their beds we considered the next stage , which would take us 370 miles further to our destination . |
26 | You will find us 9 miles from York , 11 miles from Malton on the road from the A64 to Sheriff Hutton , just along from the Blacksmiths Arms and Elm Tree Antiques . |