Example sentences of "[pron] close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone close to Mr Mandela described him yesterday as a chess player five moves ahead of anyone else in the game . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the morning our vet returned and we discussed the situation , with me close to tears . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She looked at Scott , something close to pity in her voice . |
| 7 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind . |
| 8 | The first time he 'd seen her — all those years ago — he 'd felt something close to panic . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Under his scheme they would be elected by something close to Britain 's first-past-the-post system . |
| 11 | Indeed DNA molecules , whose capacity for storing information has already impressed us , are something close to crystals themselves . |
| 12 | Indeed , the little Peugeot has achieved something close to cult status , a point highlighted by the eye-catching TV commercial for the XS . |
| 13 | The young man glared at Harry with something close to resentment . |
| 14 | Guynemer came to be accorded something close to deification . |
| 15 | He glares at Eva with something close to hatred . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Something close to shipwreck fever erupted over its cargo . |
| 18 | The MOUTH vowel [ P9 ] is especially interesting because it shows all the possible variants , from the extreme basilectal variant which occurs before /n/ in sound [ ] through the JC/JE variant [ ] and [ ] , something close to RP in down [ ] to the Cockney variant in [ ] twice . |
| 19 | He pushed through the swing doors and was gone , leaving her close to tears and frantically worried that she had upset him for ever . |
| 20 | His abrupt departure left her close to collapse . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll never forget that day at Birkdale , ’ recalled Payne , whose victory lifts him close to Ryder Cup recognition this year . |
| 22 | Warr is not readily allocated to any single faction , though his suspicion of all governments , his eventual antipathy to land tenures ( ‘ slavish ties and badges upon men ’ ) , and his vocabulary place him close to Gerrard Winstanley [ q.v. ] and the Diggers . |
| 23 | A ball was flicked on by Deane and Strach ran onto it close to Sheffs left midfield/ left back area . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Flash floods in October tore away supporting concrete panels from the base of the Mojkovac dam , bringing it close to collapse . |
| 26 | 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 ] . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Anyone close to Laura could not fail to notice her ability to ensure reality remained in the next room . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the second place , those of us close to Smith Square greatly underestimated the influence of the press . |