Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Andrew 's world the pocket-knife that belonged to Iain 's recollection became a cleaver that seemed to go so close to the bone as to almost sever completely . |
| 2 | How else can he ignore loveliness seated so close to him ? ’ |
| 3 | He also sent us out to a dhow in the harbour to fish ; we had never before been on a vessel that rode so close to the water . |
| 4 | Even so , the hissing flare passed so close to his face in its fiery trajectory , it scorched his left cheek . |
| 5 | Animation Works Interaction combines sound ( if your PC is MPC compatible ) , graphics , and animation to come somewhere close to the ultimate Multimedia package . |
| 6 | I crossed the field , keeping extremely close to the top wall ready to jump over it if two tons of Fray Bentos came visiting , but there was no sign of either bull or cattle . |
| 7 | As we filmed the elephants in Amboseli National Park , East Africa , the animals sometimes wandered so close to us that we could hear their trunks ripping the grass and their stomachs churning . |
| 8 | Galadriel Hopkins had rarely come so close to begging . |
| 9 | That Ramprakash should have come so close to being suspended for his Fenner 's folly was sad but instructive . |
| 10 | She had come so close to death . |
| 11 | Or simply because they had come so close to rescuing him ? |
| 12 | Majority foreign ownership was not permitted under Argentinian law , and the fact that the Iberia stake had now come so close to the maximum threshold , was seen as imperilling the whole privatization process . |
| 13 | She had come so close to losing the man she loved . |
| 14 | And its hoped this will reveal exactly why the plane crashed so close to the airport . |
| 15 | It was the manifest failure of the Bolsheviks to retain the confidence of the masses , their resort to brutal coercion , which enabled the openly reactionary Whites to come so close to overthrowing them . |
| 16 | After the Ken Noakes episode in her life , she had never allowed anyone to come so close to her . |
| 17 | However , Mr Murdoch has come dangerously close to an edge over which other debt-happy Australian entrepreneurs have already tumbled . |
| 18 | Punch opened the door and stood aside to let them pass , Lyddy pressing as close to Alexandra as she dared . |
| 19 | The most famous of these meetings — that held in 1155 and attended by the count of Flanders , the duke of Burgundy , the counts of Troyes and Nevers , in addition to the lords of the royal demesne — provided the occasion for Louis VII to come as close to legislating as any twelfth-century French or English king was to do . |
| 20 | He maintained that the distribution of tillites and patterns of glacial striations produced by ice sheets during the Late Palaeozoic glaciation ( now termed the Gondwana Ice Age ) found in the now widely dispersed continental areas of southern Africa , Australia , South America , India and Antarctica indicated that these land masses were contiguous at that time and probably located fairly close to the South Pole . |
| 21 | Gripping the edge of the blanket he moved as close to the fearsome head as he dared . |
| 22 | That he had to pass fairly close to her made Jenna 's heart beat alarmingly and all she could think was that she wished she had phoned and spared herself this . |
| 23 | Why should we assume the so-called contented majority has come even close to fulfilling its aspirations ? |
| 24 | Nixon 's ambitions were to crash on the rock of Watergate , but even without that disaster it is most unlikely that he would have come even close to fulfilling his mandate , In that , he would not , by any means , have been alone . |
| 25 | Roosevelt , at the beginning of the 1930s and at the height of World War II , may have briefly approached such a position of pre-eminence , but none of his successors has come even close to such a situation . |
| 26 | But a crucial ingredient in their success was the fielding of the team ( with Bland at the forefront ) and if Jonty Rhodes can inspire his team to come even close to such heights then the South African team of the 1990s may well go one step further than their illustrious predecessors . |
| 27 | Similar polls conducted by various newspapers became notorious for their frequent and lamentable failures to come even close to accurate predictions of electoral outcomes . |
| 28 | Suddenly , as they talked , arrows started to rain down on them , landing uncomfortably close to the two travellers . |
| 29 | The breakdown of a laminar jet usually starts quite close to the orifice , where the velocity profile still depends on the details of orifice geometry and the flow upstream of it . |
| 30 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |