Example sentences of "[prep] twenty yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Even at a distance of twenty yards I could see that their physiognomy was very different from the delicate features of Indian girls . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When he got within twenty yards of her , something spooked him and he gunned the hog , speeding past her . |
| 5 | They are not as swift as cheetah and have to get considerably closer , usually to within twenty yards of their target , if they are to have a reasonable chance of overtaking it when the race begins . |
| 6 | The old man must have moved very softly to get within twenty yards of him unheard , although the quiet afternoon was in fact a steady rumble and distant clatter of farm machinery . |
| 7 | Within twenty yards , he had forgotten the incident . |
| 8 | The man got within twenty yards of the tape before a hail of bullets finally brought him down . |
| 9 | Again it see-sawed to and fro throughout the half erm last couple of minutes Banbury went twice when Peter Smith fired in a shot from twenty yards which Ricky Harding in the Almondsbury goal held very comfortably , and erm Dave Bristow again went close . |
| 10 | At first a discreet pile , the mound grows steadily until it covers the pavement almost knee-deep for twenty yards . |
| 11 | But Hounslow 's fate was sealed in the eighty eighth minute when Darren Rogers scored from twelve yards after Wayne Green had left his marker for dead , sweeping by him for twenty yards . |
| 12 | I stopped about twenty yards away from the shed , appalled at the scene of utter desolation and neglect . |
| 13 | I doubted they could afford much more today , but the small dirty children seemed happy enough on their thirty by twenty yards of straw . |