Example sentences of "[num] feet from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canyon Capers — an organised 3-event excursion of jet-boat ride up the rapids of the Shotover River , a bungy jump of 280 feet from a bridge into the Shotover gorge , and white-water rafting back down the river . |
| 2 | The pups slithered out onto the weedy boulders , not forty feet from the cottage window , and waited expectantly until she reappeared carrying a sizeable fish , which the two of them ate together , wrestling over it among the sea-tangle . |
| 3 | When he was only forty feet from the Ilyushin , with his right wing now pointing straight up , its tip just a few feet from the airliner 's belly , Duncan pulled back on the left engine and then let the drag pull the plane level . |
| 4 | He obliged by hitting a vast drive about fifty yards beyond Harley 's , who then got his second shot just on to the front edge of the green and about forty feet from the flag . |
| 5 | And er the tower is solid for forty feet from the rock . |
| 6 | In Mahal [ 1991 ] Crim LR 632 ( CA ) , it was held that a jury could find that pushing someone through an open window 22 feet from the ground could lead to " the risk of some harm " . |
| 7 | The dangers of too close inspection are obvious , and Long Kin West especially calls for caution : this hole descends vertically for over 500 feet from a rock bridge across its top carrying a track from Cold Cotes on the old road . |
| 8 | An engine from one of the vans was found more than 120 feet from the crash site . |
| 9 | Wyss , in the lead , was only some fifty feet from the top when he saw a tiny movement in the snow ahead of them . |
| 10 | We were about — I do n't know — fifty feet from the door . |
| 11 | Schmidt tapped on the glass and the chauffeur ran the nearside wheels on to a broad stretch of grass fifty feet from the fringe of a beechwood . |
| 12 | ‘ I was never less than fifty feet from the wall and at that distance , with a small pistol in the dark they 'd have had a job to hit a double-decker bus . ’ |
| 13 | About fifty feet from the first tent I turned the van around and pulled it slightly off the track . |
| 14 | His two children , aged 18 months and seven months , were sleeping eight feet from the explosion , but were saved from injury by the bomb-proofing and reinforced glass that all VIPs in the province get in their homes . |
| 15 | At the next ( 8th ) , a long par-4 , he hit a 4-iron second shot about eight feet from the hole . |
| 16 | One by one I toss them into the slow current about eight feet from the roots . |
| 17 | ‘ Country ’ houses six feet from each other ! |
| 18 | The dog 's favourite bush , a hypercium , is against a wall , about six feet from the front door . |
| 19 | The drama was not quite over because all three players managed to hit the last green in two shots , and Harley , by dint of a nice kick forward when the ball pitched , was no more than six feet from the hole . |
| 20 | He played his third shot from the semi-rough to the left of the green , got it up fast over the bunkers and finished about six feet from the pin . |
| 21 | Hitch was about six feet from the edge of the pier when he jumped , landing with surprising agility . |
| 22 | The closest iron hoop is five or six feet from the edge . |
| 23 | A plain wooden cross , about twelve feet tall , and six feet from arm to arm . |
| 24 | It was about six feet from him when it went off , to which distance , and the fact that Peter 's kick had made him roll into the water at the minute of explosion , he owed his mangled survival . |
| 25 | He parked his tractor facing me about six feet from the far bank and sat watching me while eating his sandwiches . |
| 26 | A part-time soldier who was nearly killed when a grenade exploded just six feet from him celebrated his 50th birthday at home . |
| 27 | An eagle at the 16th , where Llewellyn hit a three-wood 250 yards to 10 feet from the hole , tied them for the lead , but they dropped a shot at the last . |
| 28 | It was a magnificent vision : the mighty , black-winged birds , their wings fully 10 feet from tasselled tip to tasselled tip , rose and fell in the cold wind against a background of the brown earth below them , the deep blue sky above them and , behind them and nearly circling us all , the great grey fortresses of the Andes , sheer walls of ice , snow and rock nearly two miles high . |
| 29 | Flames leapt 10 feet from windows and around 15 to 20 feet from the roof . |
| 30 | Lieutenant Margraff estimated it to be 112 feet from base to crest . |