Use the ONEAR operator for ordered proximity searches.
term1 must appear within num words before term2 in the document.
"Mark Twain" NEAR/8 Hartford
"Tour the Hartford, Connecticut home where Mark Twain lived and worked from 1874 to 1891."
It is not a match because the word "Hartford" must appear after the phrase "Mark Twain" in the text (assuming that the next eight words are not "Hartford").