Example sentences of "[verb] close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No reasonable person could have objected — nor did they — when , shortly after the death of the Hizbollah bomber , an impressive steel anti-terrorist shield was installed close to No. 10 . |
| 2 | For example , the Allianz group in Munich has close to 25% of the Bavarian Hypo Bank , one of Germany 's biggest . |
| 3 | As she stood waiting , she felt again that wave of dizziness that bordered close to nausea , and she put a hand against the rough wall of the boat house to steady herself . |
| 4 | AMERICAN Fred Couples is near to completing a scintillating year on the world golf tour which has seen him win close to £1m . |
| 5 | By keeping close to customers , we are better able to service their needs and we can keep ahead of industry trends . |
| 6 | Track descends ; 150 yds before bottom of slope , where track bends to the left and immediately before copse begins on right , cross ditch on right and bear half left on other side , keeping close to copse on your left . |
| 7 | He entered London Road , feeling his way by keeping close to buildings on his right . |
| 8 | And yet his view of ‘ Pericles ’ rings close to truth . |
| 9 | Then his face moved close to Jed 's , and he said , ‘ Are you interested in my daughter ? ’ |
| 10 | Culley moved close to Court , who fought the desire to flinch . |
| 11 | This was early music at its best — we were led somewhere new , moved close to tears , and booted back , smartly , into laughter . |
| 12 | Hazel moved close to Fiver and quietly edged him away from the others , feeding as he went . |
| 13 | The town is located close to Manchester 's international Ringway Airport . |
| 14 | Erm , indeed the first one was why should , why should the new settlement be located close to Greater York , I think the main main ans the answer to that is of course that York is the main centre in population , and employment in the county , by far . |
| 15 | Hotel is located close to Spaghetti Junction and includes 35 rooms all with TV , tea and coffee making facilities . |
| 16 | Centrally located close to Chinatown and the business district with Orchard Road just a 5 minute drive away , this hotel offers excellent value for money with a choice of good restaurants . |
| 17 | The plan stresses that new land for development has to be located close to transport routes , have access to water and draining facilities and be attractive to businesses . |
| 18 | Afterwards he could n't tell if he had dreamed it , but he was sure little Tero drew close to Maldita several times , trying to prop her up , and twice he felt Tero 's timid nudge of encouragement in his back when he was buckling with exhaustion . |
| 19 | After appearing close to agreement they diverged on 8 April when the Americans proposed further change to permit more flexibility in consultation . |
| 20 | We do not , of course , wish to gloat , having come close to liquidation many times ourselves , but it has to be said , WELL DONE , SIDCOMBE ! |
| 21 | The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry II 's confidence in his son 's ability to rule Aquitaine . |
| 22 | However , in contrast to Nicaragua , where the economy has come close to collapse , in El Salvador both the additional costs of the war and increasing indebtedness have been counterbalanced by very large injections of aid from the United States . |
| 23 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 24 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 25 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 26 | In one form of the argument , which is found in Pizzorno , the periphery has a very limited role in residual economic activities , usually in those associated with peasant farming , characterised by small-scale , low-technology , fragmented units operating close to subsistence . |
| 27 | The mass of Mercury was first determined from its influence on the orbit of Eros , an asteroid which was discovered in 1898 and which often passes close to Mercury . |
| 28 | The orbit of Mariner 10 around the Sun is such that it passes close to Mercury about every 2 × 88 days . |
| 29 | After crossing the stream turn right along the track which passes close to Trepewet Farm . |
| 30 | He had grown close to Gerry Gomez since the day he had asked if he could meet his sister at the airport , and they now worked together admirably . |