Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a few paces " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 2 | When she grew calmer , he slowly released her and she walked away a few paces , staggering , digging her hands in her pockets and turning her back on him . |
| 3 | Grimm stumbled away a few paces . |
| 4 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 5 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 6 | Susan , who lives in Sunderland , can walk only a few paces with a stick , has lost the use of an arm and has impaired eyesight . |
| 7 | The horse jumped forward a few paces with his limbs bunched up and then , holding himself for a brief moment in a static rear , galloped off in sheer terror down the path . |