Example sentences of "[pron] close to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others close the pupil right down , and because of the muscular effort needed to create a small round opening , cats , crocodiles and many other nocturnal animals have pupils which close to form slits . |
| 2 | If there is no-one close to home to talk to , or if you want to talk to an independent person about your worries , you could telephone ChildLine or Barnardo 's . |
| 3 | It was a miserable business pining for those who had gone and she thought back with something close to horror of the unhappiness she had endured while wishing herself elsewhere . |
| 4 | She looked at Scott , something close to pity in her voice . |
| 5 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind . |
| 6 | The first time he 'd seen her — all those years ago — he 'd felt something close to panic . |
| 7 | It was a measure of the strains of the day , or perhaps of the relief at finding the sympathetic Theodora , that the Archdeacon was precipitated into something close to indiscretion . |
| 8 | Indeed , the little Peugeot has achieved something close to cult status , a point highlighted by the eye-catching TV commercial for the XS . |
| 9 | The young man glared at Harry with something close to resentment . |
| 10 | Guynemer came to be accorded something close to deification . |
| 11 | He glares at Eva with something close to hatred . |
| 12 | Such futile efforts can only bring something close to contempt and suspicion among the millions of human beings who crave nothing more than a simple faith based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
| 13 | Something close to shipwreck fever erupted over its cargo . |
| 14 | His abrupt departure left her close to collapse . |
| 15 | This page and Outlook , page 27 Ferranti action : Ferranti International is planning legal action against some intermediaries in the ‘ phantom ’ arms contracts which have brought it close to collapse . |
| 16 | Flash floods in October tore away supporting concrete panels from the base of the Mojkovac dam , bringing it close to collapse . |
| 17 | Flash floods in October 1992 had torn away supporting concrete panels from the base of the dam , bringing it close to collapse and threatening the release of 3.5 million tonnes of water containing harmful levels of heavy metals from nearby mines [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 18 | The bad one leads them into temptation and they believe that the only way that they can get rid of it is to drag it close to danger . |
| 19 | Southampton , who sent West Ham to the bottom of the division six weeks ago with a similar scoreline at The Dell , have hauled themselves close to safety with a run of one defeat in 13 matches . |