Example sentences of "a few inch from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 2 | Later vehicles have a braided earth lead running to the body a few inches from the motor . |
| 3 | After returning from a week away I found the pond to be deep black ; the fish were visible a few inches from the surface . |
| 4 | by installing the bath a few inches from the wall , Bill was able to create a tiled ledge for soaps and sponges . |
| 5 | Practise this until you can bring the model to a stop , in the hover , a few inches from the ground and just in front of you . |
| 6 | Benn , the WBC title-holder , countered : little more than a few inches from his hated foe 's nose , returned the observation in kind . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An open razor , the blade thick with clotted blood lay on top of it , a few inches from his right hand . |
| 9 | The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement . |
| 10 | Shifting slightly , he drilled a new indentation a few inches from the original . |
| 11 | In no time we were moored securely a few inches from a slippery ledge , surging in a gentle swell with ropes secured to convenient rock spurs . |
| 12 | Cranston smiled and leaned closer , his face a few inches from that of the apothecary . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | As she stood on the quayside looking , a little yappy dog scuttered up from the cabin snarling at her bare toes a few inches from the deck , and a woman in maroon trousers and a yellow and orange flowered bikini top bulged over with fiery red flesh looked crossly at Peony . |
| 15 | The army occupies an area of land the size of Torness turbine hall with each soldier standing stiffly to attention a few inches from his neighbours . |
| 16 | He leant forward until his face was only a few inches from hers . |