Example sentences of "a [adj] feet " in BNC.
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| 1 | One scene among many that captures the ironic mix of commonplace and macabre has two kids battling over a football , just a few feet away from a dead body . |
| 2 | When the airbrakes are opened , some lift is lost so that the glider sinks a few feet very rapidly . |
| 3 | There were opportunities to flirt with other passengers , moments when young American women returning from a long tour left mothers and aunts below deck , and , standing a few feet away from Edward , they stared out at the Atlantic . |
| 4 | South-East Gully can be entered from a lower point , so dispensing with a few feet of scrambling above the climbs . |
| 5 | A few feet of awkward ascent lead to an open rock ledge — the Bower . |
| 6 | A flurry of pleasure as my favourite , stacked nuts , came to the rescue and then the sling was just a few feet away . |
| 7 | It was a buffalo , one of Africa 's most unpredictable and dangerous animals , out of sight but just a few feet away from where we were standing . |
| 8 | Trevor Francis , the Queen 's Park Rangers manager , sat a few feet away from Malmo 's Bobby Houghton , other shadier characters scouting for the wealth blended happily into the background . |
| 9 | The lopped neck and head lay a few feet away , and starving cats licked the blood-soaked earth . |
| 10 | It must have been about fifteen to twenty feet deep and a few feet across . |
| 11 | The shelling had stopped now and it was certain that someone had been killed or wounded , maybe the chap in the next slit trench a few feet away . |
| 12 | A few feet away two medics were lying stretched out on the floor of the barn , one lying face down , his arms by his sides , he appeared to be dead . |
| 13 | During my short conversation with the Colonel , I was being observed rather suspiciously by three of his Officers a few feet away , sitting on top of their slit trenches performing their ablutions . |
| 14 | I knew only that they happened there in the darkness and only a few feet from the pavements . |
| 15 | One of the Maguire girls Ellie or Molly , I think it was Molly , they were all fine looking , tall women — came out to do her morning business and hunkered down under an apple tree a few feet away from Eddie . |
| 16 | This is not the case when the level is even just a few feet down . |
| 17 | In the tribal agencies , government authority frequently ends a few feet from the road . |
| 18 | Spurs ' humiliation was compounded when Lineker mis-kicked wildly a few feet in front of goal and fell flat on his back . |
| 19 | ‘ We encountered a baby common dolphin trapped only a few feet from the surface , its beak and tall flipper hopelessly wrapped in layer upon layer of nylon mesh . |
| 20 | Turning , he saw a barn owl , flying parallel to him , though a few feet higher . |
| 21 | On the other hand , among the general clutter , only a few feet off , I could see the upturned keel of an old clinker-built rowing boat . |
| 22 | Nolan , glowering routinely at Sam from a few feet away , switched his ill-humour to me . |
| 23 | At Harrods , Gardiner looked to be rowing a little short forward and Cambridge shot Hammersmith Bridge possibly a few feet ahead . |
| 24 | At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest . |
| 25 | ‘ Ye can see me now , more 's the pity , ’ he grumbled as he pushed his way to the back , treading on a few feet in the process . |
| 26 | In the centre of the island are the fire mountains — dormant volcanoes — where the temperature is 400 degrees a few feet below the surface , and you can find a restaurant that grills your steak on the native rock . |
| 27 | The cart was only a few feet away but he shrugged his shoulders and headed towards it . |
| 28 | In the twilight the water , gushing and frothing , looked a long way down but the sound it made felt only a few feet below . |
| 29 | My second husband had been born 6,000 miles away , but at his funeral service the coffin lay but a few feet from the church war memorial tablet bearing Leslie 's name . |
| 30 | The male of the species is an unadulterated chauvinist who will not allow the females of his harem to move more than a few feet from him . |