Example sentences of "stand a few yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill and Cy were now standing a few yards from the string . |
| 2 | Benjamin was standing a few yards away from the church , the ladder still in his hand . |
| 3 | When Agnes had retrieved the paperback book she had ‘ forgotten ’ in her booth and reached the street Maxim was standing a few yards away studying the map in a pocket guide of Washington . |
| 4 | Even Maisie , who was now standing a few yards from the window , breathing heavily , seemed to have been paralysed by the sight of him . |
| 5 | Startled , she glanced back to find a man clad in the scarlet overalls and white crash helmet of a driver standing a few yards away . |
| 6 | The three young men stood a few yards apart from their confederate in the quiet empty street by the river and waited . |
| 7 | I stood a few yards away from him , my sandalled feet feeling the mossy lawn underneath , — and then he opened his eyes . |