Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a few paces " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also stopped after a few paces and turned to look back at her . |
| 2 | He saw me standing there waiting in the warm light from the cafe and hesitated a second , then walked on a few paces , then stopped and looked back . |
| 3 | A long-eared owl sat on a low bough overlooking the ride and watched them unblinkingly through his great eyes as they passed within a few paces . |
| 4 | And er I was dragging behind a few paces and the headmaster was watching out of his study window you see ? |
| 5 | In a similar line of argument , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 14 August 1898 ) viewed the Hooligan panic as an indictment of the hypocrisy of a civilisation that took ‘ so painful an interest about moral handkerchiefs and hymn books for the barbarians of the wild Soudan ’ while turning a blind eye towards ‘ the far wilder barbarians they may find within a few paces from their own street-doors ’ . |