Example sentences of "[adv] close to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent ( Triento in northern Italy ) was within the imperial territory , but sufficiently close to Rome for the papacy to influence events . |
| 2 | ‘ This is the best I have played so close to Wimbledon , ’ confirmed Edberg , and no one was disputing the fact . |
| 3 | They skimmed low , passing so close to Simon that their wings beat at his head . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 6 | The walking rings started so close to Liessa 's head that she could reach up and touch one . |
| 7 | We never looked to encounter an armed company in the forest , and so close to Leicester . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The ‘ milliseconds ’ pulsar actually spins once every 1½ milliseconds , tantalisingly close to Tipler 's limit . |
| 13 | The face he leaned so confidentially close to Harry 's was glimmering with triumph and self-importance . |
| 14 | At around 6am we heard heavy machinegun fire from the direction of the Deni , the investigative branch of the PDF , about half a mile from the commission headquarters and dangerously close to US and Panamanian civilian housing . |
| 15 | So it was with no plans for the future that Troy found himself at Greenhill fair , dangerously close to Weatherbury . |
| 16 | Presenting Jesus as a super-psychic seems to fall dangerously close to Satan 's goal . |
| 17 | This was also another issue always close to Mr Chatrier 's heart . |
| 18 | Wednesday , 17th : After the morning 's programme , the participants visited Amer Fort ( also called the glass palace ) and the Queen 's Garden , both close to Jaipur . |
| 19 | Also to be recommended are the Hotels Girassol and Quinta do Sol , both close to Reid 's , and the Hotel São João in the centre of Funchal itself . |
| 20 | It is surely significant that at c.60 rpm for the 1793 machine 's flywheel , the tempo of the Haydn ‘ Clock ’ Symphony 's Menuetto Allegretto ( Czerny marks it Allegro ) is dotted minim = c.72 , certainly reasonably close to Czerny 's 76 for the same music . |
| 21 | The question was one of site , and the Health chairman proposed to build it near Huaiwiri , the small outlying Mannaia oasis close to the route of the new road destined to link Kufra to the Mediterranean ; also close to Hawari , the larger Jlulat oasis . |
| 22 | We moved out of the flat a few weeks after and found a house fairly close to Kate and Alison 's . |
| 23 | It was launched on 3 November 1973 , passed fairly close to Venus on 5 February 1974 returning pictures and other data from that planet , and flew by Mercury on 29 March 1974 . |
| 24 | It 's their intention to have a car as close to Zoom as possible in production by 1995 . |
| 25 | I do n't know much about marathon running and I shall try and stick as close to Mota as possible . |
| 26 | Punch opened the door and stood aside to let them pass , Lyddy pressing as close to Alexandra as she dared . |
| 27 | The advent of the new government also resulted in changes in the senior levels of the civil service , with the dismissal or transfer of civil servants identified as close to Rajiv Gandhi . |
| 28 | It is quite a small world , and sooner or later we might be lucky enough to get someone really close to Leeds on the list . |
| 29 | Fiszbach himself , a former PUWP party secretary in Gdansk , was a leading party liberal , Deputy Speaker of parliament , and reputedly close to Walesa . |
| 30 | Not only has it got a place , I can say there are a lot of places where they are thriving and doing well , even close to Ipswich . ’ |