Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When , in a voice that is neither , he sings ‘ My arms were sure and strong ’ , a glance at his thin arms and meagre frame brings you dangerously close to a belly-laugh . ’ |
| 3 | He himself had other plans , although for the moment he was keeping them fairly close to his chest . |
| 4 | She knew precisely to what evidence he referred , had already experienced tactile proof of his arousal when he had held her so close to his warm naked body . |
| 5 | In this sense it was Maxse 's radical Conservatism and not his more dangerous notions that brought him so close to the hub of Conservative politics in the decade before 1914 . |
| 6 | I am not amused to see him so close to my sister . ’ |
| 7 | Our lookout man on the forecastle reported her as close to our port bow , where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her as did our quarter-deck midshipman , who was sent forward at once to the forecastle to report back . |
| 8 | This man who had strangled another with his bare hands to avenge her , who had faced danger and death without flinching , was trembling with the need to have her as close to him as possible . |
| 9 | Bernadette : With my other babies they 've mostly left them quite close to me , but she was put over to the side , the doctor was slow in coming , and she went over and checked her over , instead of coming to speak to me as they usually do — she went out again and did n't even look at me [ laughs ] … |
| 10 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 11 | If used for entertaining , it 's a good idea to locate it as close to the house as possible . |
| 12 | The Company 's line of communication , which placed it fairly close to the centre of northern North America , was already long and was open only in the ice-free months . |
| 13 | Had I hit it a bit harder , I would have got it quite close to the flag . ’ |
| 14 | I pulled out the compass , held it horizontally close to my eyes , let the needle settle onto north , looked that way and mapped the first few feet in my mind . |
| 15 | And do n't site it too close to a house wall , or you will get sooty stains — unless you build some form of screening . |
| 16 | For Bradford Northern , this overwhelming defeat puts them perilously close to relegation with only two games remaining and now with a much inferior points scoring record compared with Salford with whom they are level . |
| 17 | He commented on the smell of petrol that came from them and made an elaborate joke of not putting them too close to the flames . |
| 18 | But their own preoccupations with rational , thinking subjects often bring them too close to psychology 's notion of the subject for them to question it . |
| 19 | 's interest in discursive structure takes them too far from psychology , and their fascination with an absolutely psychological unconscious brings them too close to it for them to be able to pursue feminist and psychological interests together . |
| 20 | We may reasonably think that the vase-picture of the Underworld does bring us really close to the composition of a lost wall-painting , but it is adapted to the small , curved surface of a pot ( though , being a calyx-krater , the curve is only horizontal , and it does retain some of the character of a wall ) , and there are other important differences , in particular the nature of the red-figure technique . |
| 21 | It brings us quite close to what is essential in some kinds of abstract art : when we look at the work of Rothko or Barnett Newman or maybe Brancusi , what is it exactly that makes us feel these works are so important ? |