Example sentences of "twenty [noun] in front " in BNC.
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1 | The hurricane-lamp was placed about twenty feet in front and pumped up to maximum brilliance while we lay sweating and mosquito-bitten in the shadows , fingering our cameras and the trigger of our temperamental Sun Gun , expecting that at any moment a curious snake would be drawn to the light from the shadows behind us , rather than from the cave ahead . |
2 | Twenty yards in front of the gravel pathway was a low mound where the launcher mechanism for the clays sat . |
3 | You do n't have to walk with me , you know , you can walk twenty yards in front if you want then well I 'll get the car 's right up there , right up top end . |
4 | About twenty metres in front of our house was a great tree . |
5 | By now he was some twenty lengths in front of his pursuers , and it was becoming a matter of how long this horse of doubtful stamina could keep going . |