Example sentences of "twenty feet " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty feet . |
| 2 | Twenty feet . |
| 3 | Ockrent is still trying to tone down his screen actors — ‘ remember there 'll be twenty feet of grimace up there ’ — but he retains the keenness of a novice : ‘ You get the excitement of a first night every ten minutes . ’ |
| 4 | About twenty feet from the trench , in the centre of the dirt track leading to the road two Commandos were standing peering into a large hole in the ground . |
| 5 | It must have been about fifteen to twenty feet deep and a few feet across . |
| 6 | THERE IS an avenue of old oak trees marking the drive which two hundred years ago led through twenty feet high brick gate piers to this beautiful Baroque house . |
| 7 | Marie could see another of them , almost buried by brambles , about twenty feet away . |
| 8 | Kylie wanted to personally say thank you to all the kids who have bought her records and for it to be worthwhile you need to have kids within twenty feet of her . |
| 9 | The splash was dusty but still visible and , without much trouble , I found the beginning of the trail about twenty feet straight ahead in the wood and followed it as easily through the tangled trees and undergrowth as on the day before . |
| 10 | They must have penetrated twenty feet into the passage , and there was still no hint of an end within reach . |
| 11 | Thee will not think I talk figuratively when I tell thee that his pine apple stove is sixty feet long , twenty feet wide and height proportionable . |
| 12 | He also commented on Pinus rigida , pitch or Virginian pine , reaching great height in its native country , and there were many at Woburn , ‘ twenty feet high , though not of many years standing and keep pace with the other kinds of Pines and Firs in the same plantation ’ . |
| 13 | However , the collection of this variety must have been considerable : Collinson noted on the back of a print of the Magnolia grandiflora flower in his copy of Catesby 's Natural History of Carolina , that there were twenty-nine of these trees at Goodwood in 1759 , two of them twenty feet high . |
| 14 | I have an Umbrella Tree , above twenty feet high , that flowers with me abundantly , every spring . |
| 15 | When it did , a solid wall of water , twenty feet deep , would sweep down the old bed , crushing everything in its way , hitting the highway with the force of an express train . |
| 16 | It was a copy of The Daily Gleaner ; from a distance of twenty feet Martha could read all the headlines and some of the smaller print . |
| 17 | In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen … |
| 18 | Its precondition was that the surf at Waimea Bay should be over twenty feet for the entire duration of the day in which the contest would be surfed . |
| 19 | The pre-season dispute over which contest — the Eddie Aikau or the Triple Crown — would have priority if the surf topped twenty feet at Waimea seemed about as relevant as an argument over how many angels you could fit on a pinhead . |
| 20 | When the swell rises to twenty feet plus and the high surf warning siren sounds and everyone else is evacuating the water , these are the men who paddle out . |
| 21 | By noon , the swell at the Bay had built to eighteen to twenty feet . |
| 22 | Every day I wake up I pray it 's twenty feet . ’ |
| 23 | When I saw him I was laughing , because it was n't even twenty feet . ’ |
| 24 | These were dug as a method of extracting coal at fairly shallow levels , and were usually only about twenty feet deep . |
| 25 | Only once it had looked real : when we flew back one night from a blazing Hamm at twenty feet in the moonlight . |
| 26 | The crowd from the pub and the cottages stood watching twenty feet away . |
| 27 | He scrambled away on all fours , not stopping until he reached the dirty blank wall of the piggery twenty feet away . |
| 28 | Twenty feet away , Sonny sat against the wall of the piggery , paralysed with fear , staring at the writhing body of his brother with open-mouthed horror . |
| 29 | The ‘ window breakers ’ , as their name implies would sometimes fly ten or twenty feet making their use most unpopular with our elders . |
| 30 | This meant carrying buckets of near boiling water a distance of eighteen to twenty feet , and emptying meant doing the job all over again in the reverse direction . |