Example sentences of "[det] mile to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who know better will not rest contented with such a meagre peep of a lake so singularly grand , but will round the hill rather more than another mile to the west , and when the dark lake is full in view , sit down to drink a long look from that favourable point of view . |
| 2 | The village continues for a further half mile to the turnoff for Sutton Hall , a small Georgian residence , now privately owned . |
| 3 | Once she had turned the corner and the house was hidden from view , she jumped off her bike and pushed it through the maze of potholes that pitted the drive as it meandered the half mile to the main gates . |
| 4 | Baldwin then went to meet her at Victoria Station and walked the half mile to their Eaton Square house with her , describing , as she subsequently wrote to her husband 's mother , what had happened , in slightly breathless terms : |
| 5 | We arrived at Tywyn at 10:56 and walked the half mile to the Talyllyn . |
| 6 | A few miles to the east of Cirencester is the pretty village of Ampney Crucis , the Ampney Brook flowing through its centre . |
| 7 | A few miles to the south east of New Mills , east of Hillesley , stands the lovely little mill at Kilcott . |
| 8 | Hermitage with its tiny church dozes beneath High Stoy from where Grace Melbury watched her erring husband ride away on one of his visits to Mrs Charmond , and , a few miles to the west , Melbury Bubb is tucked beneath Bubb Down Hill , seemingly oblivious to the outside world . |
| 9 | A refinery was built for the industry at Pumpherston , a few miles to the east , and opened in 1884 . |
| 10 | Thus it is that the Tamar , beautiful as the nymph whose name she bears , winds her way from the rugged north coast between the hills , to be joined by the Tavy , flowing from Dartmoor to join her for the last few miles to the sea , while the luckless Torridge flows ever northward in vain pursuit of Tamara 's beauty . |
| 11 | 1849 the women were moved to the manor house at Dalston , a few miles to the north , but the institution 's functions were subsumed in those of other bodies . |
| 12 | During the previous day a major naval battle had ensued a few miles to the east , and had continued into the night — the ‘ Battle of Matapan ’ ; a resounding defeat for the Italian Fleet . |
| 13 | Dropping the kids off at my mother-in-law 's , I trudged the few miles to the hospital taking the short cut through the grounds to the usual ward . |
| 14 | Over the last few miles to your overnight spot it 's often hard to think of much else except getting a hot meal and a drink — quickly . |
| 15 | Across the marches , a few miles to the north-east of Willoughby is Markby . |
| 16 | Ovedale , another esquire of the body , was from Wickham , a few miles to the east , while Kelsale , a yeoman usher , was customer of Southampton . |
| 17 | Dragging with them seventeen unwieldy brass cannon from Edinburgh castle , they took Norham castle on the south bank of the Tweed , and pressed on a few miles to Flodden in Northumberland . |
| 18 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |
| 19 | But if it is military evidences that you are pursuing , then I would leave Tarbes and go instead to the splendid castle of Montaner , a few miles to the north-west — not quite Pyrenean I will admit , but near enough and certainly good enough to be brought in here . |
| 20 | The landscape in this area of south-east Cambridgeshire and north-east Hertfordshire is certainly very different from that in Fig 7 only a few miles to the south-east ; until the nineteenth century it was a land of open fields . |
| 21 | The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert . |
| 22 | He remembered staring out from the nest site on a clear cold morning and seeing a line of grey-blue a few miles to the north which they said was the sea . |
| 23 | There was some light left as they motored the few miles to The Towers . |
| 24 | The last few miles to Ealing were covered in a jerking crawl which took more than an hour , and daylight was breaking down into darkness as Alison gave directions through the maze of streets and parked cars away from the main shopping area . |
| 25 | On the fourth day we moved our camp a few miles to the east , where our trackers maintained we should find the nyala more numerous ; this proved to be the case . |
| 26 | Ovedale , another esquire of the body , was from Wickham , a few miles to the east , while Kelsale , a yeoman usher , was customer of Southampton . |
| 27 | Two , or three , of them are in , or moving into , the far from populous row of flats , just over the river in South London , which is inhabited by Patrick and Jenny , and by a stunning , boring wife who affords Patrick one of the novelist 's turmoils in a vulgarly-appointed borrowed flat some miles to the north . |
| 28 | Towards the end of the afternoon Crane riding ahead as usual reported a smoke signal some miles to the west in the direction they were going . |
| 29 | This road was subsequently abandoned , being partly submerged by the new Loch Loyne reservoir , and was replaced by another constructed some miles to the east . |
| 30 | The importance of Stonyditch Point as the end of the spit for a long period is emphasised by the position of Orford , which was well situated as a port when the Ness ended at Stonyditch Point and not in its present position some miles to the south . |