Example sentences of "[noun] a few [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shifting slightly , he drilled a new indentation a few inches from the original . |
| 2 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 3 | She was brought up in Cramer , a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh . |
| 4 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
| 5 | ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life . |
| 6 | I can not imagine what sort of place this gentleman imagined he was coming to in bringing the latter , but I must say it struck something of an odd note to see in Darlington Hall these two large silent men staring suspiciously in all directions a few yards from wherever the Italian gentleman happened to be . |
| 7 | Half way to the door I swivelled and , as if simply following the script of this particular hangover , strolled back to the table and came to a halt with my hands in my pockets a few feet from Davis 's chair . |
| 8 | Behind the sundial there were a few trees , some of them in flower : a small path led into their deceptive shallow depths , and there , in a hollow a few yards from a high brick wall that bordered the garden , stood a sculpture . |
| 9 | ‘ None whatsoever , ’ he drawled , eyeing the lively antics that were taking place a few yards from them . |
| 10 | Miss Davison , who was standing close to the rails a few yards from me , suddenly ducked under the railings as the horses came up . |
| 11 | The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby . |
| 12 | The army occupies an area of land the size of Torness turbine hall with each soldier standing stiffly to attention a few inches from his neighbours . |
| 13 | Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement . |
| 14 | Later vehicles have a braided earth lead running to the body a few inches from the motor . |
| 15 | Cloistered in converted farm buildings a few miles from York … craftsmen breathe new life into Fairford 's medieval glass . |
| 16 | The men were waiting for Karen in a hotel room a few miles from the accident . |
| 17 | The reason for this was the bright point of light that had popped into existence a few feet from his eyes . |
| 18 | Stray shots buzzing all around , Ace threw herself behind a large fallen stalactite a few yards from the sandbags , just as her ammunition ran out . |
| 19 | But Florida has two other prominent international junior training centres — the Rick Macci International Tennis Academy at Grenelefe Resort a few miles from Orlando and Disney World ; and Harry Hopman/Saddlebrook Resort in the town of Wesley Chapel near Tampa . |
| 20 | The Jungle Giants nursery is at Wigmore a few miles from the show garden . |
| 21 | Twenty-third July — sitting under a tree a few yards from my slit trench writing a letter to my parents in Glasgow . |
| 22 | It was headed by Det Supt Bill Coady , who sat grim-faced with fellow detectives in the court a few feet from the dock as the verdicts were announced , to gasps from the court 's public gallery . |
| 23 | He taught at the College of Further Education a few miles from Spaxton ; she had met him through a rambling club . |
| 24 | With painful slowness it carried him to the station a few miles from his home . |
| 25 | Before that , in 1854 , Bradbury and Evans had published a series of twenty-one plates with the title A few leaves from the Newly-Invented Process of Nature-Printing . |
| 26 | by installing the bath a few inches from the wall , Bill was able to create a tiled ledge for soaps and sponges . |
| 27 | As she stood on the quayside looking , a little yappy dog scuttered up from the cabin snarling at her bare toes a few inches from the deck , and a woman in maroon trousers and a yellow and orange flowered bikini top bulged over with fiery red flesh looked crossly at Peony . |
| 28 | It happened in 1913 at Senghenydd in mid-Glamorgan , a mining village just over the hill and the moorland a few miles from my home . |
| 29 | Seventeenth July — I joined about 20 Commandos from the various units around the village on a trip to a quiet part of the beach a few miles from our front-line positions . |
| 30 | According to Jimmy Johnstone 's very forthright biography , the ‘ horseplay ’ reached its peak a few yards from the Queen 's Hotel when the Leeds and Scotland goalkeeper David Harvey climbed on top of a beach hut and began throwing stones at his team mates . |