Example sentences of "[noun] back a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
2 | Whitlock shouted at the two policemen on the motorcycles to get the photographers back a few feet to give Mobuto a chance to get out of the limousine . |
3 | Kate pulled the door back a few inches . |
4 | Although , if we wish to test the depth of these mid-Victorian fears and also to judge the constancy of the vocabularies of reaction , then we must edge back a few years to an episode that would bring back flogging as a judicial punishment almost as soon as it had been abolished . |
5 | Cast your minds back a few weeks . |
6 | She tipped the sunshade back a few inches and let the dazzling rays toast her face . |