Example sentences of "[vb past] a few feet " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ship rose a few feet , wobbling alarmingly . |
| 2 | In the dream , but not in memory , a mist rose a few feet above the surface of the water like a veil over a familiar face . |
| 3 | Dismayed at the pain he had inflicted and at the pain he himself felt in consequence , Richard rushed forward , then stopped a few feet from Victoria twisting from side to side in frustration , wondering how he could stop her crying . |
| 4 | Martin stopped a few feet before him and stood with legs planted firmly apart , said loud enough to be heard above the music , ‘ What are you drinking ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 7 | The alluvial soil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer . |
| 8 | On the ground floor he walked a few feet ahead , leaving me to trundle behind like a meek Arab wife . |
| 9 | She walked a few feet and stabbed at the earth with the fork . |
| 10 | Sometimes the youngsters flew a few feet up into the air to take the offering — to return immediately to the safety of the wire . |
| 11 | He took a run at the tree trunk , and scrambled a few feet up before pitching on his head . |
| 12 | The lopped neck and head lay a few feet away , and starving cats licked the blood-soaked earth . |
| 13 | Existing ’ defined ’ boundaries sometimes need monitoring : the author on one occasion was involved with a site where development was delayed pending completion of a sewerage scheme and one boundary advanced a few feet a year , flower beds , lawn and all . |
| 14 | A transparent humanoid figure hovered a few feet away . |
| 15 | The Luggage halted a few feet from the wizard and , after a moment , retracted its legs . |
| 16 | Quickly Grant slid a few feet down the slates and leaned carefully out round the edge of the massive chimney stack , until he could peer over the coping . |
| 17 | It stood a few feet above the nodding , windy heather and was open and grassy at the top . |
| 18 | The Dane stood a few feet away from her , shuffling his feet . |
| 19 | Fernando did n't move , just stood a few feet from her with dark , expressionless eyes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | After a while Ollie jumped down and sat a few feet away . |
| 22 | His breathing had become rather quick and heavy , and the car suddenly swerved a few feet , as if he was no longer paying any attention to the road ahead . |