Example sentences of "[adj] yard [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two men stood side by side a few yards in from the edge of the treeline , examining the layout of the ground between them and the house . |
| 2 | The stewards had thrown a cordon across the fairway seventy yards back from the green . |
| 3 | We take two sharp lefts and stop again , on the main road fifty yards up from the road we left him . |
| 4 | In a letter to The Times , published on 9 May 1931 , a correspondent signing himself ‘ Old Brightonian ’ recalled an occasion when Woods was bowling in a school match and the wicket-keeper , standing some ten yards back from the wicket , was unable to stop a ball which flashed by him to the boundary but was able to field the stump which the ball had knocked out of the ground . |
| 5 | The wall stood twenty yards back from the road . |
| 6 | Here is now , left edge of the penalty area , moving towards the byline and doing well there to take it away from him but at the expense of a throw-in , that 's taken back to Alan , is twenty yards back from the byline and moving back out towards the touchline on the far side . |
| 7 | The team checked the incline for some 200 yards out from the beach at one point . |
| 8 | The village lay a few hundred yards back from the river across fields of yellow stubble . |
| 9 | The cottage stood about two hundred yards back from the road , accessible only by a narrow drive flanked on both sides by stone walls . |
| 10 | As Douglas and Ramsay stationed their people about one hundred yards out from the gateway , peering to see if the drawbridge was indeed down , they were startled by two figures who materialised out of the gloom from behind a low wall of the forecourt — and were almost leapt upon there and then . |