Example sentences of "[adv] close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrying it over , she placed it on Tweed 's desk , switched it on , found a music programme , kept it on low volume and sat down close to Newman . |
| 2 | Trent ( Triento in northern Italy ) was within the imperial territory , but sufficiently close to Rome for the papacy to influence events . |
| 3 | Colin Wilkinson took the ball on the burst and brought play to within ten metres of the home line where Colin Morrison fed the three quarters for Maurice Field to go in close to touch . |
| 4 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 5 | Not since the Second World War had Congress remained in session so close to election day , and with mid-term elections on Nov. 6 rapidly approaching , a compromise budget was at last finally agreed . |
| 6 | ‘ This is the best I have played so close to Wimbledon , ’ confirmed Edberg , and no one was disputing the fact . |
| 7 | They skimmed low , passing so close to Simon that their wings beat at his head . |
| 8 | Only Babylonia has given us a story so close to Genesis that the question of borrowing or of direct influence is seriously considered . |
| 9 | The game was already lost in Berne when Gough went and I think the reason for that was that the Scots had failed to find the fire that brought them so close to success in Sweden . |
| 10 | Even so close to shore , the sea is full of the souls of the drowned . |
| 11 | The Southern region , so close to London , attracted nine applicants , among whom the Rank/Associated News-papers/Amalgamated Press group , which became Southern TV , was clearly the strongest . |
| 12 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 13 | And in the far distance beckoned the possibility of marriage , a state so close to paradise that he hardly dared imagine it . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know I could have such a good time so close to home . |
| 15 | The walking rings started so close to Liessa 's head that she could reach up and touch one . |
| 16 | We never looked to encounter an armed company in the forest , and so close to Leicester . ’ |
| 17 | If you can get so close to barbel , with or without them knowing it , you should take the opportunity to study how they use the available cover to sneak under ; how they move like silent wraiths across the bottom , and how they rake over the gravel on the bottom with their barbules . |
| 18 | Some regard it as so close to bribery it should be banned . |
| 19 | I suppose it was a little thoughtless of me to allow my scalpel to flash and flicker quite so close to Rory O'Hagan 's fly buttons . |
| 20 | The Germans were also exploring the quality of resistance in the North , and looking on Scotland , with its coasts so close to Scandinavia , as a possible ‘ soft option ’ for raids and attacks to the south . |
| 21 | On the one hand , his invasiveness of Johnson triggers an immediate cringe : on the other , were not Boswell so crass so frequently , his readers could not get so close to Johnson . |
| 22 | We have arrived at chapter 22 , but before we deal with it in detail , we must look quickly at another story that lies between Isaac 's birth and his coming so soon and so close to death . |
| 23 | She had come so close to death . |
| 24 | I do n't much care which , ’ said Fenella , who did not really want Caspar to ride off and leave her alone out here , but who was not going to get so close to Nuadu and then ride away and leave him . |
| 25 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's a terrible thing to happen so close to Christmas . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But could I get an appointment so close to Christmas ? ’ |
| 28 | And all I know is he 's getting literally close to home and he works for you , if you include disabling your barmen in the conditions of employment , that is . ’ |
| 29 | Granting that the Beowulf reference , though tantalisingly close to unambiguity , can not be unequivocally accepted as a primary source for Hercule Poirot , the directness of the next reference brooks no denial . |
| 30 | The ‘ milliseconds ’ pulsar actually spins once every 1½ milliseconds , tantalisingly close to Tipler 's limit . |