Example sentences of "twenty yards [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 2 | The dark object was some twenty yards to his right and lay out among the stones of the Waste . |
| 3 | Revolutionary new … clubs , balls , gloves , and even tees ; and all guaranteed to add twenty yards to your drive . |
| 4 | There was more shouting , and about twenty yards to my left a man ran noisily . |
| 5 | I doubted they could afford much more today , but the small dirty children seemed happy enough on their thirty by twenty yards of straw . |
| 6 | Suddenly , as Billy and Mary got within twenty yards of them , the water erupted The girls screamed and cowered away as large , panic stricken fish surfaced and flapped around in confusion . |
| 7 | I had therefore only my front to guard , and as the heavy cover nowhere approached to within less than twenty yards of my position I was quite safe . |
| 8 | It had been a favourite choice of Miss Barnett on those long dark afternoons m- winter before the Sunday school was released , when the outside light was fading and the small Adam Dalgliesh was already dreading those last twenty yards of his walk home where the rectory drive curved and the bushes grew thickest . |
| 9 | Those twenty yards of crunching gravel where the lights of the house were momentarily screened were a weekly horror . |
| 10 | When he got within twenty yards of her , something spooked him and he gunned the hog , speeding past her . |
| 11 | From a traditional Labour background , my mother rejected the politics of solidarity and communality , always voted Conservative , for the left could not embody her desire for things to be really fair , for a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth , for a half-timbered cottage in the country , for the prince who did not come . |
| 12 | They are not as swift as cheetah and have to get considerably closer , usually to within twenty yards of their target , if they are to have a reasonable chance of overtaking it when the race begins . |
| 13 | He let his mind wander down the twenty yards of landing and the three stairs to the back bedroom where his sixteen-year-old daughter lay . |
| 14 | The old man must have moved very softly to get within twenty yards of him unheard , although the quiet afternoon was in fact a steady rumble and distant clatter of farm machinery . |
| 15 | The man got within twenty yards of the tape before a hail of bullets finally brought him down . |
| 16 | Most significant thing about that cross that Kingsley Black was er like you say was Rozario was twenty yards outside the penalty box and that should be his territory , big hanging c crosses like that . |
| 17 | He glanced over his shoulder when they were twenty yards along the carpet and was surprised to see her still leaning thoughtfully against the door . |
| 18 | The Berne-bound goods train was standing on the next track down ; all he had to do was cover the twenty yards between the two tracks and find himself an empty freight car . |
| 19 | Twenty yards down the road , however , there was an exit marked OUT through which we rapidly drove , successfully avoiding the missiles . |
| 20 | But she forced the Volvo into first , the engine screaming as she drove fifteen or twenty yards down the road . |
| 21 | Sure enough , Margaret was waiting for her , about twenty yards past the school gates . |
| 22 | Four of the watchers , experienced men , not easy to shock , had to undergo therapy as they described how the figure of the youth was picked up and hurled twenty yards towards them , like a rag doll , first flying , then bouncing and rolling in a twisted assembly of disjointed limbs . |
| 23 | I shuffled towards Mick who was standing twenty yards off the road by the rear of the Land Rover . |
| 24 | Now he could n't move twenty yards without signing autographs . |
| 25 | ‘ The entrance to the lower mine , is by a level of two hundred and twenty yards in length , which communicates with a shaft , one hundred yards deep . |
| 26 | Twenty yards in front of the gravel pathway was a low mound where the launcher mechanism for the clays sat . |
| 27 | It was about twenty yards in diameter . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They had set up their mortar about twenty yards from our trench , and periodically fired off a couple of bombs in the direction of the German positions . |
| 30 | When they were about twenty yards from the house , Jackie signalled them to crouch down behind a large bush covered in strange waxen blooms , like roses , only they were n't . |