Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] paces " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement . |
| 2 | The wood was only a hundred paces away , but the sweat-streaked mare was blown and slowing . |
| 3 | Visitors to the city may easily fail to chance upon Portugal Place which remains an oasis of timeless calm only a few paces from the crowded pavements of the city centre . |
| 4 | The worm-eaten stairs were only a few paces from the open door but she did n't give them a thought . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The ground was soft and spongy and in only a few paces her canvas shoes were soaked . |
| 7 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then he sprang , bearing her down into the trampled snow only a few paces from Yet 's body . |
| 10 | It was when he reached the ground floor and was only a few paces from the door leading to the basement that things started to go wrong . |
| 11 | CROSS A FAST TYPIST WITH A WINDOWS WORD PROCESSOR AND THE CHANCES ARE YOU 'LL SEE SOME WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH AS THE PROGRAM CHUGS ALONG A FEW PACES BEHIND THE USER . |
| 12 | Grimm stumbled away a few paces . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sharpe was just a few paces from his enemy . |
| 15 | The dog moved off a few paces and turned back , wagging his tail anxiously . |
| 16 | There were checks to be done , now that Hess had replaced the mechanic , so Karlheinz backed off a few paces with the camera . |
| 17 | The nearest target was about a hundred paces away . |
| 18 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 19 | He moved back a few paces and , without pausing to think , took a running leap out into the chasm between the two houses . |
| 20 | Bernice and Defries stepped back a few paces , to where Daak 's shrieking chainsword was slicing a hole in the curved wall . |
| 21 | The man shuffled back a few paces , bent almost double . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |