Example sentences of "[noun sg] twenty foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 2 | There 's a shower in the cloakroom , there 's a coffee machine twenty feet away … ’ |
| 3 | When later in 1823 he was once again arrested for debt , he watched fellow debtors in King 's Bench Prison perform a mock election which became the subject of a famous painting exhibited in 1828 and bought by George IV for £500 — ‘ baronets , and bankers , authors and merchants , painters and poets , dandies of rank in silk and velvet and dandies of no rank in rags and tatters , idiotism and insanity , poverty and affliction , all mingled in indiscriminate merriment , with a spiked wall twenty feet high above their heads ! ’ |
| 4 | I turned round and there , six feet away , was the edge of a crater twenty feet across ; that gave me a shock . |
| 5 | It disappeared again but another came in view and there was a clatter of wings as two landed on the road twenty feet from where I hung . |
| 6 | The screaming tempest whipped into the house , hurling furniture twenty feet into the air . |
| 7 | He scrambled away on all fours , not stopping until he reached the dirty blank wall of the piggery twenty feet away . |
| 8 | To his credit , or possibly his ignorance , Michael then immediately filmed the next scene , where he had to be seen on the underside of a fire engine 's turntable ladder twenty feet up in the air , being lowered to the ground . |
| 9 | Well then er quite , so he said erm it was all quiet and I looked up into the darkness and I said that the old fellow had gone and he litten his fuse and there was me there I could see the sparks in the darkness and I was way twenty feet below him and he must have whatsit . |
| 10 | The top of the ladder hooks over the main parapet twenty feet above . |
| 11 | 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 … |