Example sentences of "[noun] a [det] inches " in BNC.
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1 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
2 | For stomach curls you lie on your back on the floor , bend your knees upwards slightly ( while keeping your feet on the floor ) , then lift your head and shoulders a few inches off the floor ( do not use your hands or arms to support your weight ) . |
3 | Shifting slightly , he drilled a new indentation a few inches from the original . |
4 | If the bottom is not too weedy I constantly twitch the bait along the bottom a few inches at a time . |
5 | Thus , if the goal is for your dog to eat in the car rather than the kitchen , in preparation for a long journey , move its dish a few inches a day towards the car , and then into the car . |
6 | Construction workers then raised the beam a few inches . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Later vehicles have a braided earth lead running to the body a few inches from the motor . |
9 | He turned his head , and saw a human foot a few inches away . |
10 | Max now exposed Kemp 's torso and heaved the corpse a few inches off the table . |
11 | ‘ I want to make it absolutely clear , ’ said Angalo slowly , as a great feathery head nabbled in the water a few inches away , ‘ that if you 're suggesting that we ride on a geese — ‘ |
12 | On one occasion when our boys were returning in the basket lift , which was the only way of reaching the top platform of a rig from sea level , the crane driver had temporarily suspended out crew a few inches above the water in mock punishment for their temerity in fining him . |
13 | However , unknown to Lee , under his ball were bramble runners , so that when he came down to it , his hand got turned and he only moved the ball a few inches . |
14 | Last night rescuers used airbags to prise the wreck a few inches off the ground . |
15 | by installing the bath a few inches from the wall , Bill was able to create a tiled ledge for soaps and sponges . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Place a sheet of fine netting a few inches above cabbages and brassicas to keep cabbage white butterflies away . |
18 | Secondary double-glazing involves the fitting of a wooden or plastic frame a few inches inside your existing window and slotting in sliding panes of glass or non-glass . |
19 | Even the Euro-sceptical Mr Lamont has shifted the official line on EMU a few inches . |
20 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ I said , ‘ Any chance you could move your leg a few inches . ’ |
21 | The screws that they used in the workshop came in plastic bags a few inches square . |
22 | Finally , if he gets pain at night he should sleep on an extra pillow or raise the head of the bed a few inches to stop the gastric juices flowing upwards into his chest . |
23 | Entering the shielded room , the physician will place both hands a few inches above the disturbed area in the patient 's energy field , and begin to ‘ tune in ’ and resonate biomagnetic energy field patterns in unison with the patient . |
24 | To cut from a model a few inches long to a close-up of a face — Harrison Ford in the police Spinner in Blade Runner — establishes an identity between them . |
25 | There was just too much distance between him and Richmann , however , and Richmann needed only to move his hand a few inches before firing . |
26 | And while she was concentrating on Tavett she watched Shildon , reflected in the glass of a painting on the wall in front of her , slide his hand a few inches along the couch , flip open her bag and feel through the contents . |
27 | The owner of this garden was digging a new rosebed , when he hit stone a few inches below the surface . |
28 | A DENSE DARKNESS YOU COULD TOUCH , THE WHIRRING DIN OF THE COAL-CUTTING MACHINE , THROWING INTO THE AIR BLACK DUST SO THICK THAT THE LIGHT BEAMS FROM THE MINERS ’ LAMPS COULD ONLY SHINE INTO IT A FEW INCHES . |
29 | Cranston smiled and leaned closer , his face a few inches from that of the apothecary . |
30 | Corbett leaned over , putting his hands on the arms of the chair , his face a few inches away from de Craon 's . |