Example sentences of "[art] few feet away " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A flurry of pleasure as my favourite , stacked nuts , came to the rescue and then the sling was just a few feet away . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The lopped neck and head lay a few feet away , and starving cats licked the blood-soaked earth . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nolan , glowering routinely at Sam from a few feet away , switched his ill-humour to me . |
| 12 | The cart was only a few feet away but he shrugged his shoulders and headed towards it . |
| 13 | There was a moped leaning against a mud wall a few feet away . |
| 14 | Everyone engaged on an escape scheme enjoyed the furtiveness necessary for good security : the concealment of tell-tale evidence under coats a few feet away from unsuspecting sentries , the private knowledge kept from other members of the hut . |
| 15 | Everyone rushed outside in pyjamas and bare feet and there across the field the aircraft lay , on fire from wingtip to wingtip , with the broken-off tail section a few feet away . |
| 16 | Ground-nests are so well concealed that predators can easily overlook them even when they are only a few feet away . |
| 17 | It is easy to spot from a few feet away . |
| 18 | And if you can do all that with her husband just a few feet away , blissfully unaware that he 's the butt of the joke , then yours is his house and everything that 's in it , old son . |
| 19 | With Dennis just a few feet away on the stairs , it was the sexual equivalent of Russian roulette . |
| 20 | After a while Ollie jumped down and sat a few feet away . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For is this not how such a story should begin , with the cliché of the poor and disenfranchised of the earth , huddling for warmth just a few feet away from champagne-swilling plutocrats glorying in their ascendancy ? |
| 23 | Her Suzy Lamplugh Trust personal rape alarm was lying on the ground a few feet away . |
| 24 | On this particular Sunday afternoon , Celia 's husband , clad in shorts and T-shirt , bent over them carefully , snipping here and there , and occasionally looking towards the pram , parked in the shade a few feet away , where his nine-month-old son , propped up by pillows and securely strapped in , made contented unintelligible noises at him . |
| 25 | A few feet away the corridor opened into a new space . |
| 26 | As she stopped a few feet away from them she saw that his cap had been knocked some distance from where he lay and the force of the blow , which had thrown him through the air , had dislodged his fountain pen from his pocket . |
| 27 | Standing a few feet away , with a glass in his hand , was their host . |
| 28 | It is not the sense in which a lamppost in the distance appears shorter than one a few feet away . |
| 29 | Then there was Steffi Graf , my favourite player , just a few feet away from me . |
| 30 | Surf from giant waves crashing a few feet away splashed his face . |