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Example sentences of "twenty yards [adv] " in BNC.

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1	A gravity system of sewerage was in operation from 1838 , with cleansing manholes not more than twenty yards apart ( see 1840 and Drain Plan ) .
2	By the time I realized this we were less than twenty yards apart .
3	I motion him away and he glides the car twenty yards forward and round the corner .
4	She guessed they 'd come about twenty yards inland ; she could still hear the sigh and fall of the incoming tide .
5	Splinters were radiating from the giant pool ; a crack appeared some twenty yards ahead of Karelius and his nearest companions .
6	Yanto , who was twenty yards ahead with Molly , had turned on hearing the unmistakable sound of cork leaving bottle .
7	We are making fast progress till suddenly a black van pulls out of a lane twenty yards ahead , brakes , and spills a sackful of coppers out the back .
8	I drove twenty yards ahead so that the bus would not be blocking my way when it stopped at the bus stop , then I stopped and looked back .
9	‘ Back that way , sir , ’ one of the squad volunteered , barely intelligible through his mask , and McLeish saw her , twenty yards away , walking back slowly towards them , head bowed .
10	At that moment the mist parted , and Charsky caught sight of four dim figures , not twenty yards away from him .
11	The taxi driver waited until he was twenty yards away and then shot him .
12	Twenty yards away , through the storm , I glimpsed his figure , furiously lashing away as though his last fishing moment had come .
13	When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes .
14	In the block we start running from just in front of the ladder , but on the night we 've first of all got to run from the block to the wire , which is twenty yards away in the nearest place and then put the ladder up .
15	I stopped about twenty yards away from the shed , appalled at the scene of utter desolation and neglect .
16	I picked him up and stumbled over the rough ground to the back gate of our garden , which was only about twenty yards away .
17	I jumped out of the car , still not knowing quite how to argue with those toughs a bare twenty yards away , until I arrived ; but the sickening sight settled my course of action .
18	The shed was at least twenty yards away and there was no cover .
19	He let the thought pass as the plane came to a halt less than twenty yards away from the limousines .
20	If the wind is behind it , you can get more than enough standing twenty yards away .
21	The smoke is drawn gently into the hole and then , several minutes later , wisps of it emerge from the top of a chimney twenty yards away .
22	A huge roadster stood about twenty yards away .
23	Up to the eyes in snow , up to the toilet which was about twenty yards away , that was where lived then , in the house where Building Society is now , lived there for thirty four year .
24	‘ Why should anyone want the telephone number of a house only twenty yards away ? ’
25	The blast of heat from the wall of flaming rubble he saw some twenty yards away , forced him to jerk his head back and retreat to the door leading to the four cells .
26	Doogie left him about twenty yards away , then walked back to me , dusting his hands off as he came .
27	In front of them , about twenty yards away , he had seen a barbed-wire fence some three feet high which an old corporal told him had already cost a thousand lives of those who had done nothing more than erect it .
28	He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across .
29	There were twenty yards still to cover .
30	During the occasional moments in which the driven rain lost its solidity , Trent could see Mariana 's arms locked round a fallen treetrunk some twenty yards upstream .