Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 2 | So begins the story of Ragged Dick , or Street Life in New York , Horatio Alger 's first book — the first of 135 tales written in the late 1800s that together sold close to 20 million copies . |
| 3 | We rarely played close to the building which , when not lit up , had something of the baleful haunted house about it . |
| 4 | A minority of Tories were prepared to concede that there could be exceptions to the theory of non-resistance in extremis , and in this they admittedly came close to the doctrine of some of the more conservative Whigs . |
| 5 | This had already been binned but I binned the offer as well , just in case I ever came close to considering it seriously . |
| 6 | Indeed , it was on the road just outside Bid array and beside the Nive that I once came close to running a fish over , a glossy trout that seemed to be flipping its way desperately to the roadside and to safety . |
| 7 | The first French skirmishers were running forward but , instead of tackling the staff officers who still lingered close to the Dutch position , they laid their hands on the abandoned gun , the first trophy of their attack . |
| 8 | The application still ran close to the user to give a crisp look and feel . |
| 9 | With regard to Calvinism , Ewing had joined Thomas Erskine [ q.v. ] of Linlathen as early as 1836 in opposing predestination , and he later came close to a doctrine of universal salvation . |
| 10 | The ninth seed , Michael Stich , also came close to bowing out but escaped with a 4-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 win over Frenchman Rodolphe Gilbert . |
| 11 | So , despite seeming to lose every argument , the CEGB probably came close to achieving its original goal . |
| 12 | Piece of blue polythene sheeting used to carry coals also discovered close to scene of fire where human remains found . |
| 13 | During the many weeks of my father 's hospitalization , I often came close to accepting that he was on his way . |
| 14 | One of the monstrous hounds had followed her out of the main house and now pressed close to her legs . |
| 15 | How many years is it since we even came close to winning it ? |
| 16 | The two horses then came close to me , looking at my face and clothes with great interest . |
| 17 | Before that Gloucester , in an inspired spell , twice came close to equalising , through the lorry driver Steve Talboys , up at 5am so that he could play , and Townsend . |
| 18 | Thorne , who twice came close to winning an £86,000 car for a maximum 147 , won 5-1 to reach the last eight . |
| 19 | Larne twice came close to stealing a second goal but seemed content to play for a draw . |
| 20 | McAvennie looked Celtic 's most threatening attacker and twice came close to forcing a goal from over-head kicks . |
| 21 | Indeed , they sometimes came close to thinking that these achievements were not merely impressive but final . |
| 22 | Leith again came close to physically lashing out at him , and might well have , she realised , had not the object of her aim moved forward to the bed . |
| 23 | Although Brian claims not to be a ‘ whiz-bang merchant ’ , his build-up to the grand finale , the combustion of a mixture of nitric oxide and carbon disulphide ( which allegedly came close to killing von Liebig when an explosion caused the glass tube containing the mixture , to send shards of glass flying in all directions ) , instilled some trepidation into the audience . |
| 24 | At first they doubtless kept close to the edge of the water , but wherever there was moss there was both moisture and vegetable debris and spores to eat . |
| 25 | When the light went out , Rain had the suspicion they were not alone on the stairs , that someone was watching them , perhaps they actually passed close to a figure pressed into the shadows . |
| 26 | He continually veered close to grand statements , then pulled back . |
| 27 | Knighton suggests that she too came close to being condemned to death , but was spared because of the king 's natural tenderness towards his mother . |
| 28 | The 29-year-old Motherwell man , who has made an art form of fouling up on the big occasion , acknowledged that he too came close to calling it a day after the Olympics . |
| 29 | Monica Zipper of the Monix label , who won the recent More Dash Than Cash fashion prize , recently came close to financial disaster before being saved by a big manufacturer . |
| 30 | It never came close to winning an election anywhere and , despite the fears of Harry Pollitt , the Communist leader , it made little impact in London dockland around Wapping . |