Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] miles away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going to grammar school really made me isolated It was only a couple of miles away from where I lived but that 's a long way when you 're only 11 — years-old and all your mates from junior school had gone to the local comprehensive round the corner . |
| 2 | A COUPLE of miles away from Westminster , the Gulf war is being debated with even greater passion than in the Commons itself . |
| 3 | I have not got enough land for the horses ' longer holidays , but with friendly farmers around I am able to rent two big ‘ safe ’ fields which are a couple of miles away from home . |
| 4 | He lived a couple of miles away in a cottage on a farm at Pilton , a cottage where he and my Dad were born . |
| 5 | By Thursday Bobby and Barbara are getting used to cycling to school and work a couple of miles away in Bicester . |