Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a few inches " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curl your toes back and with tummy pulled in , raise both arms towards your toes , lifting your head and shoulders only a few inches off the floor . |
| 2 | Curl the toes back and raise both arms towards the toes , lifting the head and shoulders just a few inches off the floor . |
| 3 | So she eased the car forward a few inches more — but forgot to take off the lock . |
| 4 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 5 | The decorations shone on the walls and I loosened the buttons of my tunic and slipped my tie down a few inches . |
| 6 | She kept trying to pull herself up , but she could n't get further than lifting her head forward a few inches . |
| 7 | The pendulum consists of a weight on the end of a piece of string , thread or chain usually a few inches long . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't believe you know Maximilian Keller , ’ the big man said , making introduction gestures awkwardly a few inches above the surface of the sea , ‘ and Jo-Ann Sills . |
| 9 | Kate pulled the door back a few inches . |
| 10 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 11 | ‘ The reason , Ranulf , ’ Corbett announced softly , his face only a few inches from his servant 's , ‘ is that I am trying to find out if , from some eighteen months ago , the ale-masters and tavern-keepers along this highway remember two foreigners , a young woman and her male companion . |
| 12 | She tipped the sunshade back a few inches and let the dazzling rays toast her face . |