Example sentences of "twenty yard " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had set up their mortar about twenty yards from our trench , and periodically fired off a couple of bombs in the direction of the German positions . |
| 2 | ‘ Back that way , sir , ’ one of the squad volunteered , barely intelligible through his mask , and McLeish saw her , twenty yards away , walking back slowly towards them , head bowed . |
| 3 | Twenty yards down the road , however , there was an exit marked OUT through which we rapidly drove , successfully avoiding the missiles . |
| 4 | Two hundred and twenty yards . |
| 5 | At that moment the mist parted , and Charsky caught sight of four dim figures , not twenty yards away from him . |
| 6 | When they were about twenty yards from the house , Jackie signalled them to crouch down behind a large bush covered in strange waxen blooms , like roses , only they were n't . |
| 7 | Twenty yards from the reef … |
| 8 | During the occasional moments in which the driven rain lost its solidity , Trent could see Mariana 's arms locked round a fallen treetrunk some twenty yards upstream . |
| 9 | The wall stood twenty yards back from the road . |
| 10 | It was in the hedgerow less than twenty yards from that of Constable Shorter . |
| 11 | The taxi driver waited until he was twenty yards away and then shot him . |
| 12 | I doubted they could afford much more today , but the small dirty children seemed happy enough on their thirty by twenty yards of straw . |
| 13 | But , carrying baskets of buffalo dung from the pit by the cattle shed , along the road and down towards the mango tree to put it on the furthest field , my nose was burnt before I 'd walked twenty yards . |
| 14 | Twenty yards away , through the storm , I glimpsed his figure , furiously lashing away as though his last fishing moment had come . |
| 15 | He looked around and within a radius of twenty yards , both on his side of the street and over there on the far corner , he could see ten or a dozen little girls , each in a pale dirty dress and with hair in a dark , tangled mane . |
| 16 | I shuffled towards Mick who was standing twenty yards off the road by the rear of the Land Rover . |
| 17 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 18 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 19 | In the block we start running from just in front of the ladder , but on the night we 've first of all got to run from the block to the wire , which is twenty yards away in the nearest place and then put the ladder up . |
| 20 | Malleson carried my things down to the other block under his greatcoat and I followed him down the path about twenty yards behind . |
| 21 | Splinters were radiating from the giant pool ; a crack appeared some twenty yards ahead of Karelius and his nearest companions . |
| 22 | A gravity system of sewerage was in operation from 1838 , with cleansing manholes not more than twenty yards apart ( see 1840 and Drain Plan ) . |
| 23 | We were following a long , straight road in visibility of about twenty yards , all of us hanging out of the windows in a vain attempt to spot landmarks , when a ghostly figure loomed up , saluted , and announced in long-suffering tones , ‘ Excuse me sir , Mr Mills , you 're on the main runway ! ’ |
| 24 | Eventually , on a day when the visibility at Bourn was about twenty yards , the powers-that-be decided that four Mosquitoes from our squadron would make the attempt to take-off for an undisclosed destination in France , each carrying a 4,000lb bomb . |
| 25 | ‘ The entrance to the lower mine , is by a level of two hundred and twenty yards in length , which communicates with a shaft , one hundred yards deep . |
| 26 | Yanto , who was twenty yards ahead with Molly , had turned on hearing the unmistakable sound of cork leaving bottle . |
| 27 | Suddenly , as Billy and Mary got within twenty yards of them , the water erupted The girls screamed and cowered away as large , panic stricken fish surfaced and flapped around in confusion . |
| 28 | By the time I realized this we were less than twenty yards apart . |
| 29 | The dark object was some twenty yards to his right and lay out among the stones of the Waste . |
| 30 | I had therefore only my front to guard , and as the heavy cover nowhere approached to within less than twenty yards of my position I was quite safe . |