Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few feet " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cat , with her mouth full of seagull feathers , was feebly trying to climb up , but after a few feet her claws lost purchase and she slithered back by gradual stages to the deck . |
| 2 | After a few feet , she stopped , and thrust a hand through the window at him . |
| 3 | She explained that the tree , to her looked like a green fuzzy clump even at a distance of a few feet . |
| 4 | Strictly speaking , much of this walk is trespassing since it does n't follow recognised footpaths , but the land is rough grazing and wo n't suffer from the passage of a few feet . |
| 5 | It is probably significant that our own body size of a few feet is roughly in the middle of the range of sizes we can imagine . |
| 6 | For the space of two heartbeats the two protagonists , hunter and quarry , glared at each other across the intervening gap of a few feet , while hurtling through the night at better than 80 m.p.h . |
| 7 | When it seemed that the sound and whatever it emanated from was about to overwhelm us , the engine and coaches of an express train appeared in the left-hand window and whizzed past a few feet from the front bumper . |
| 8 | A royal smashed past a few feet to my left , then another took a dive down by sheltering bank , his hooves carving into the ground just a yard from my toes and spraying my legs with black peat . |
| 9 | The driver reversed and the whole thing came away , dragged for a few feet by the car . |
| 10 | South-East Gully can be entered from a lower point , so dispensing with a few feet of scrambling above the climbs . |
| 11 | covered over with sn with a few feet of snow . |
| 12 | When she was within a few feet of the ground , the cat leapt from her and rubbed itself against its mistress 's legs . |
| 13 | The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM . |
| 14 | Robins found that Geiger readings there were halved when taken within a few feet of the ring of stones , as if the ring acted as a form of ‘ shield ’ . |
| 15 | She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were . |
| 16 | During a match against Parr 's XI Felix was fielding at point for Sampson 's batting and he persisted in approaching to within a few feet of the batsman . |
| 17 | They insisted that neither loyalists nor republicans would have left 200 lb of explosive within a few feet of men and women working contentedly in the bakery kitchen and suggested that it was more like the work of outside agents , acting under strict and impersonal orders . |
| 18 | All cabinet council meetings took place in the west wing of the White House within a few feet of the Oval Office . |
| 19 | In the latest example of this phenomenon , high on the massive granite sweep of South Ridge on Arran 's Cir Mhor , a pristine copy of Howett 's Constable compendium decided to play truant — and landed , incredibly , within a few feet of my rucksack below , leaving us to puzzle out the route unaided . |
| 20 | I have , on more than one occasion , managed to entice a badger to within a few feet , simply by scratching my head , the inquisitive animals searching for this new ‘ badger ’ grooming in the shadows . |
| 21 | A returning female alights within a few feet of where she last left her baby . |
| 22 | Beyond the apple trees and within a few feet of the river is a large raised platform , visible in winter before its annual submergence in weeds , part of a vanished building , and there are clear lines of stone walls adjoining it . |
| 23 | There was a movement in the undergrowth and a rabbit bobbed out into the clearing , settling to feed within a few feet of where he stood . |
| 24 | I remember once a large white-tailed mongoose scuttled past within a few feet of us . |
| 25 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 26 | Using his binoculars , he watched the ball roll to within a few feet of the bunker into which he himself had dived that day when he had played with Richie , Dr. Stevie and Sir Bryan . |
| 27 | Nolan , glowering routinely at Sam from a few feet away , switched his ill-humour to me . |
| 28 | It is easy to spot from a few feet away . |
| 29 | Visually , the body reminds me of a Schecter or Tom Anderson and if it was n't for Aria 's distinctive headstock you 'd be hard pushed to tell this was n't a £1500 guitar from a few feet away . |
| 30 | As they move forward , Tepilit , without warning , hurls his spear at the district officer from a few feet away . |