Example sentences of "[pron] come close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this I may be vulnerable , for I was on the lookout for miracles and it was while watching Nancy , listening to her and eventually breaking my own icy shield and talking to her , that I came close to seeing what I was looking for . |
| 2 | I realized that I could have been in deep trouble there : I came close to inflicting a serious injury on Frank Dick . |
| 3 | ‘ The only time I came close to lobbying was when I asked Dave Mannion , a friend for a long time , to tell me if he thought I 'd outlived my usefulness here , then I would slip quietly away . |
| 4 | While they had their own ideas and theories , Diana did not feel that any of them came close to understanding the true nature of the turmoil in her heart and mind . |
| 5 | A second reason was closely related to this , namely an anthropocentrism which came close to asserting that man could do whatever he liked with creation . |
| 6 | Because their demands were nil , the Masai could be approached in a way which came close to the Colonial Service 's proclaimed ideal of disinterested benevolence . |
| 7 | The idea was to record and tour with the band , but Knopfler saw an essentially fun project with his mates develop into something which came close to getting out of hand . |
| 8 | Tom Peters — the top US management guru — cites the example of the US Harley Davidson motorcycle plant , which came close to being put out of business by Japanese competition some eight years ago . |
| 9 | Two years later , he joined Louis in a war against Holland , which came close to destroying the Protestant republic . |
| 10 | Mercury Communications Ltd , which came close to accepting AT&T Co 's hand in marriage a year or so ago , is backing the US company 's complaint to the US authorities that the UK regulatory system is unsatisfactory because , claims AT&T , the UK has not provided adequate safeguards to prevent British Telecommunications Plc from abusing its monopoly power , and has failed to exercise controls over interconnection services provided by Telecom for rivals , or the company 's pricing policy ‘ in a meaningful way ’ . |
| 11 | After Oxford , Merck joined the staff of Time Out , where she wrote impenetrable reviews and helped to organize the strike which came close to destroying the magazine . |
| 12 | This problem emerges most clearly in psychology 's relationships with computer-dependent methods , which come close to its ideal of objectivity . |
| 13 | There are some yachts which come close to this spec : the FF boats of Holland ( only 30 and 35ft ) ; the X119 , but I do n't think this is suitable for two and its bulb keel with forward protrusion seems to me to be dangerous in our net-infested waters ; the Dehler db36 is interesting , though ugly and over-designed . |
| 14 | According to Hulme and Blyth ( 1984 ) , reclaimed peatland in Harris and Lewis is characterised by pastures with Trifolium repens , Holcus lanatus , Agrostis canina and Anthoxanthum , which comes close to this sub-community . |
| 15 | One case which comes close to misrepresentation is English Columbia 's recording of the Introduction and Allegro by Ravel , recorded in late 1923 , which was alleged to be ‘ conducted ’ by the composer . |
| 16 | This is the level of the process of higher education itself , the level which comes close to that of the student experience . |
| 17 | Most recently to date have been experiments on ammonia gas resonantly pumped by CO2 lasers , in which good modulation , and chaos , have been observed in a system which comes close to Ikeda 's original proposal { 18 , 19 } . |
| 18 | Other MPs who came close to defeat were the Militant supporter Mr Pat Wall ( Bradford North ) , and Mr Ron Brown ( Leith ) , the left-winger who had the whip withdrawn for a month for dropping the Mace . |
| 19 | you came close to the white line . |
| 20 | In the beginning , more than fifteen years ago , when she was much slimmer and wore flared trousers , she seemed to enter a magnetic field whenever she came close to Tom . |
| 21 | She came close to threatening the Community with a repetition of de Gaulle 's policy of ‘ the empty chair ’ in the sixties . |
| 22 | There was no one in the stable or the yard , but when she came close to the back door she could hear voices from the kitchen . |
| 23 | By now she 'd definitely come to pin the blame on the stuff they 'd had to drink ; every time she even thought of it she came close to throwing up . |
| 24 | The two boys gazed at her with such blazing admiration that she came close to blushing . |
| 25 | Needing a moment 's breathing-space , she took a side-step or two away , and had a brief inner tussle where she came close to telling him that Travis was not her boyfriend , and had never been her boyfriend . |
| 26 | If your dog shows signs of behaving in this fashion then you will need to train it to ignore people who come close to the car . |
| 27 | It 's not every day that you come close to playing God . |
| 28 | The basis of the book is that we are unfulfilled because we 've grown too sophisticated for God , we 're lonely , we 're morally confused , and I think God is the answer for this , it fashions , religion fashions the kind of community in which you 're redeemed from loneliness , it gives you the sense that when you come close to the end of your life you do n't have to panic that you have wasted your life because religion can show you that you have made a difference to the world . |
| 29 | Anyone who is carrying someone she loves , who can no longer walk unaided through the minefields of old age , knows that there are times when she comes close to losing her nerve — and times when it shows . |
| 30 | It was a memorable flight because the wings iced over , forcing the pilot to dive , and left Lord Aldington feeling that ‘ we came close to death ’ . |