Example sentences of "[num] miles when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had gone two or three miles when he asked me what I did and how I came to be hitch-hiking . |
| 2 | ‘ Please do n't say no , ’ said the producer , who produces nothing if not charm in abundance , especially over three thousand miles when you 're hungry for a closed vowel sound . |
| 3 | The exertions of the first five miles when he had thought the Dragoons might burst from behind every hedgerow or farmhouse had exhausted both the Major and his horse , so once he felt safe he sensibly slowed to a contemplative and restoring walk . |
| 4 | She had walked only about two miles when she saw , coming towards her , the one man who she did not wish to see . |
| 5 | He set out on foot as it was getting dark , and had already walked three or four miles when he saw a cart , half-full of hay , by the side of the road . |