Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] metres " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a scale a one centimetre representing a hundred metres So that 'll be nine centimetres . |
| 2 | ‘ Imagine a 100 metres runner finding bricks and potholes in his lane when all the other lanes are normal . ’ |
| 3 | Here they were , parked a thousand metres up the dough-shaped mountain , huddled in Ellen 's Fiat 500 because despite the sun the wind outside was wicked . |
| 4 | The kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and it 's got a hundred metres of the line payed out . |
| 5 | Would his lungs bake , and his eyes poach , and his skin crisp to crackling before he had even fallen or slid a hundred metres ? |
| 6 | One theory is that the oil has sunk , and is drifting in globules a few metres below the surface of the water . |
| 7 | Cram , who hopes to win a 1500 metres place in Barcelona , won by a comfortable five seconds . |
| 8 | They ran for the shelter of a large chunk of dislodged temple that had fallen a few metres away . |
| 9 | The Hunters moved with a distorted slow-motion gait through the corridors of the abandoned station , occasionally taking off and flying a few metres . |
| 10 | She had not walked a hundred metres before she tripped over a loose stone and went crashing over a steep overhang . |
| 11 | You can start vibrating them as soon as your have laid a few metres . |
| 12 | I had my problem hamstring and knew that I had n't had the necessary training to run a 200 metres after a 100 and a relay . |
| 13 | It was the first time that I had run a 60 metres in years and I improved my personal best to 6.63 seconds , which I was pleased with — but not so happy , obviously , to lose to Lincoln by one-hundredth of a second . |
| 14 | The Sunderland fifth-former , who helped his school , St Aiden 's , win an 800 metres track relay championship on Saturday , went into the Durham City event as a late entry without any special training . |
| 15 | Final 1 Rotherham 314 pts ; 2 Trafford 295 ; 3 City of Hull 249 ; 4 Border 240 ; 5 Gateshead 215 ; 6 Rowntree 207 ; 7 Stockport 164. — World mile record holder Steve Cram continued his belated build-up to this week 's Olympic trial by winning an 800 metres race for Jarrow and Hebburn in a modest 1min 51.1secs in a Panasonic Northern League Division Two match at Leeds . |
| 16 | He had a thousand metres of nylon fishing-line on the marlin rod lashed to the port stay , three hundred kilos breaking-strain . |
| 17 | He gunned the engine when he only had a few metres to go , felt the Jeep claw at the hard ground and hurtle forward . |
| 18 | Some , from lower viewpoints , gave glimpses of the faceted dome that covered the expanse of space ; others looked down and revealed the four tiny figures balanced a hundred metres above a vast , circular , grey plain . |
| 19 | The easiest and cheapest way of doing this was to excavate an 800 metres long by one metre square trench within a section of the ELR 's former double-track roadbed , now occupied by only a single track . |