Example sentences of "[vb past] a few feet [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she stopped a few feet away from them she saw that his cap had been knocked some distance from where he lay and the force of the blow , which had thrown him through the air , had dislodged his fountain pen from his pocket . |
| 2 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 3 | The alluvial soil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer . |
| 4 | On the ground floor he walked a few feet ahead , leaving me to trundle behind like a meek Arab wife . |
| 5 | Sometimes the youngsters flew a few feet up into the air to take the offering — to return immediately to the safety of the wire . |
| 6 | He took a run at the tree trunk , and scrambled a few feet up before pitching on his head . |
| 7 | The lopped neck and head lay a few feet away , and starving cats licked the blood-soaked earth . |
| 8 | A transparent humanoid figure hovered a few feet away . |
| 9 | The Dane stood a few feet away from her , shuffling his feet . |
| 10 | Trevor Francis , the Queen 's Park Rangers manager , sat a few feet away from Malmo 's Bobby Houghton , other shadier characters scouting for the wealth blended happily into the background . |
| 11 | After a while Ollie jumped down and sat a few feet away . |