Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] feet " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the split second it took Angel Two to cover the few feet between them , Grant reflexively pulled the trigger of the shotgun . |
| 2 | Every few minutes a large solid mass breaks off and topples forward in a cascade of loose , glowing material , and comes to rest a few feet from the main mass , leaving a fading , sullen red glowing scar to mark the place on the flow where it came from . |
| 3 | After that Finlayson did his best to get Tribe to fly a hundred feet below them , but the man kept wandering up . |
| 4 | To Hazel , it seemed a likely place for a weasel : or the white owl , perhaps , might fly along the escarpment at twilight , looking inwards with its stony eyes , ready to turn a few feet sideways and pick off the shelf anything that moved . |
| 5 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 6 | Other installations would be demolished , including the gates ' winding gear ( 'A' and ‘ F ’ ) which hauled the caissons aside to allow ships of up to 85,000 tons to enter the 1,148 feet ( 351m ) dock . |
| 7 | His voice only seemed to travel a few feet , then it stopped dead . |