Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [adj] feet " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you first came in , I would have said you were small , but when you stood beside Terry you seemed exactly the same height , and she 's five feet six . |
| 2 | ( My red-tailed buzzard , on the other hand , can drag a fully grown rabbit in her claws , but then she is two feet tall and weighs 3 pounds or more , nearly four times Dawn 's weight . ) |
| 3 | Yes I think it 's perhaps worth making the point erm to Rosemary that although , as you say , i it 's six feet high , that it does n't spread all that wide and it 's , it 's a mistake in a small garden to think that you ca n't have things that are on the tall side . |
| 4 | Every day I wake up I pray it 's twenty feet . ’ |
| 5 | He 'd tell him , he 'd get his orders from the office , cos the Deputy Harbourmaster he would go down all the sound he sound in river and see what wanted taken out , then he 'd say to my father I 'll dredge at so and so belo below docksill and docksill what they used to do they used to , my father what he 'd do he 'd put stakes on the mud , a short stake and a long stake on account of the tide and he 'd , he 'd make an imaginary on that stake , then he 'd go ashore at Wolverston , phone up what have you got on your docksill , the fella might say it 's ten feet , well he 'd say right we 'll make that twenty feet , so that 's er , that 's what he used to work on to dredge the river . |
| 6 | Built in 1814 , it is 72 feet high , and is often said to be the tallest windmill in the country , though that honour properly belongs to a tower mill at Sutton ( q.v. ) in Norfolk . |
| 7 | It is 468 feet long and 275 feet wide ; the nave vault of 150 feet is nearly the height of Beauvais and this is a complete building . |
| 8 | The central one is larger than the others ; it is 42 feet in diameter and the other four are each 33 feet . |
| 9 | The abbey church is a magnificent example of these domed churches ; it is 275 feet long . |
| 10 | It is 430 feet deep . |
| 11 | It is 281 feet long and weighs nearly I , 500 tons . |
| 12 | It is 640 feet long and is supported on 5 masonry arches . |
| 13 | It is 252 feet high in contrast to the older Tour de Romaine on the other side of the façade and is called the Tour de Beurre because money was provided for its erection from payments for dispensations given permitting consumption of butter during Lent ( 471 ) . |
| 14 | It is 157 feet high and the amphitheatre from wall to wall is 620 by 513 feet , the largest in existence . |
| 15 | In wild , rocky countryside , it is 650 feet long , with a level roadway throughout , over six arches in granite blocks superbly laid without mortar . |
| 16 | Billy Graham was using an adjustable lectern twenty-five years ago ; ( he needed to , since he is six feet four and some of his colleagues are a foot shorter . ) |
| 17 | ‘ Saul could have reported us , but now he 's six feet under , so we 're safe as houses , ’ concluded Josh . |
| 18 | He 's six feet . |
| 19 | and he 's he 's six feet seven tall , he 's twenty and you 'd think he was thirty five |
| 20 | He 's 5 feet 10 tall with long , dark shoulder length hair . |
| 21 | He 's five feet nine inches tall , slim , with dirty blond hair in a centre parting , and he has a cold sore on his top lip . |
| 22 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |