Example sentences of "yard [prep] the [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were only fifty yards from the herd the French boy came back to Joseph and raised a mischievous eyebrow . |
| 2 | Any competitor who wins three consecutive races retains the cup , and in 1986 Terry was one race away from gaining his second cup when he was beaten by a local lad whose legs had given way just twenty yards from the finish the previous year . |
| 3 | Desert Orchid was beaten , but ahead of him two brave steeplechasers were fighting out a stirring finish , and fifty yards from the line the no-hoper , the candidate for last place rather than first , stuck his plain-looking chestnut head in front and kept it there . |
| 4 | As I entered the orchard , a few yards from the entrance the farmer was tending to two badly wounded cows . |
| 5 | Three hundred and twenty-eight yards from the tee the Suez Canal cuts a deep channel across the course . |
| 6 | But — so much for her wish to escape Fen 's disturbing proximity for a while — after the first few yards beyond the bridge the towpath ceased to exist . |