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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] mile " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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 .