Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [art] few feet " in BNC.

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1 The shelling had stopped now and it was certain that someone had been killed or wounded , maybe the chap in the next slit trench a few feet away .
2 One of the Maguire girls Ellie or Molly , I think it was Molly , they were all fine looking , tall women — came out to do her morning business and hunkered down under an apple tree a few feet away from Eddie .
3 There was a moped leaning against a mud wall a few feet away .
4 Carefully measuring out distances and angle of fire , the Doctor triggered the blaster on its constant wide-beam setting , directing it at a spot on the tunnel floor a few feet ahead , where there was a sharp corner .
5 Everyone rushed outside in pyjamas and bare feet and there across the field the aircraft lay , on fire from wingtip to wingtip , with the broken-off tail section a few feet away .
6 Between them , I see through large holes to moist saffron earth a few feet below .
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