Example sentences of "[adv] close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We climbed eight pitches of glassy ice through the storm and at nightfall emerged on the summit ridge , already close to exhaustion and chilled to the bone . |
| 32 | For some time threats to governments will continue to come primarily from those already close to power . |
| 33 | In practice , however , the majority of employers that have equalised upwards ( i.e. instead of reducing the retirement age for men ) are at this stage allowing women the option to take their pension early without reductions , instead of obliging those already close to retirement to prolong their working life . |
| 34 | ‘ Youthful folly ’ struck unpleasantly close to home . |
| 35 | Susan Bradley 's voice , at first apologetic then conspiratorial and finally close to tears , squeaked into his ear in a long monologue of complaint and desperation . |
| 36 | Er in fact I would probably think that erm having looked at some of the results recently I would think that that 's going to be somewhere close to average now . |
| 37 | The face he leaned so confidentially close to Harry 's was glimmering with triumph and self-importance . |
| 38 | Back in the Jaguar with Olwen , they motored north up the M6 , turning off close to Lancaster to make their way up a private road to a grey stone castle at the top of the hill , overlooking the beautiful valley of the River Lune . |
| 39 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |
| 40 | At around 6am we heard heavy machinegun fire from the direction of the Deni , the investigative branch of the PDF , about half a mile from the commission headquarters and dangerously close to US and Panamanian civilian housing . |
| 41 | So it was with no plans for the future that Troy found himself at Greenhill fair , dangerously close to Weatherbury . |
| 42 | Packaged in a disturbingly brave grey sleeve ( depicting the rear regions of a naked angst ridden , shorn haired young man ) it verged dangerously close to Factory 's moderne Savilleion artwork . |
| 43 | I continued along a path over the bluffs following a waymarked nature trail , where the main animal life seemed to be a few pregnant sheep blowing about dangerously close to death on the rocks below . |
| 44 | In 1975 when Jock Stein was almost killed in a car crash , he lay in a Dumfries hospital dangerously close to death with a fractured skull . |
| 45 | Presenting Jesus as a super-psychic seems to fall dangerously close to Satan 's goal . |
| 46 | A sense of perspective can also be undermined in the other direction — is not pride in performance sometimes dangerously close to obsession ? |
| 47 | Twice eighteen month old Pickle dragged himself home close to death with the noose pulled tight around his neck |
| 48 | They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home . |
| 49 | This was also another issue always close to Mr Chatrier 's heart . |
| 50 | Wednesday , 17th : After the morning 's programme , the participants visited Amer Fort ( also called the glass palace ) and the Queen 's Garden , both close to Jaipur . |
| 51 | Also to be recommended are the Hotels Girassol and Quinta do Sol , both close to Reid 's , and the Hotel São João in the centre of Funchal itself . |
| 52 | One tester described the SL 's cabin as ‘ implausibly close to perfection ’ , and for drivers under six foot , that is exactly right . |
| 53 | It is surely significant that at c.60 rpm for the 1793 machine 's flywheel , the tempo of the Haydn ‘ Clock ’ Symphony 's Menuetto Allegretto ( Czerny marks it Allegro ) is dotted minim = c.72 , certainly reasonably close to Czerny 's 76 for the same music . |
| 54 | The question was one of site , and the Health chairman proposed to build it near Huaiwiri , the small outlying Mannaia oasis close to the route of the new road destined to link Kufra to the Mediterranean ; also close to Hawari , the larger Jlulat oasis . |
| 55 | In some areas , notably close to towns , dogs are banned from beaches . |
| 56 | You 'll find them right up close to towns , sometimes . |
| 57 | If you er you have to get up close to look at these features carefully , but it shows very clearly that there 's a lot of twelfth century stone incorporated in the building . |
| 58 | It was also pointed out that when Montupet set up close to West Belfast , Richard Needham claimed it would bring up to 1000 new jobs to West Belfast . |
| 59 | Abney Park in North London was a convenient site for the Titford family — fairly close to home , extremely spacious , and with a certain degree of Nonconformist tradition . |
| 60 | We moved out of the flat a few weeks after and found a house fairly close to Kate and Alison 's . |