Example sentences of "[vb past] close [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she stood waiting , she felt again that wave of dizziness that bordered close to nausea , and she put a hand against the rough wall of the boat house to steady herself . |
| 2 | Culley moved close to Court , who fought the desire to flinch . |
| 3 | Hazel moved close to Fiver and quietly edged him away from the others , feeding as he went . |
| 4 | ‘ The only time I came close to lobbying was when I asked Dave Mannion , a friend for a long time , to tell me if he thought I 'd outlived my usefulness here , then I would slip quietly away . |
| 5 | Mellor , it will be recalled , was the unfortunate minister charged with turning the pig 's ear of Margaret Thatcher 's commercial broadcast policy into a silk purse — a miracle he came close to performing . |
| 6 | This entailed the loss of about 3,000 posts with some universities shedding 25 per cent of their staff ; some departments were closed and a number of institutions came close to bankruptcy . |
| 7 | Chilperic 's wish to appear as a cultivated monarch is not in question ; he wrote poetry , however badly , and he showed some interest in such issues as the alphabet , to which he wished to add four letters , and in theology , where he came close to heresy , when he decided to abolish the distinctions between the persons of the Trinity . |
| 8 | The situation came close to manslaughter , and by its overt violence and the occupation of the assailant it is an exception . |
| 9 | In 1983/84 , it came close to collapse after making heavy losses on loans to an Indian commodity group named Esal , which was involved in the subsequent collapse of Johnson Matthey . |
| 10 | Other MPs who came close to defeat were the Militant supporter Mr Pat Wall ( Bradford North ) , and Mr Ron Brown ( Leith ) , the left-winger who had the whip withdrawn for a month for dropping the Mace . |
| 11 | After Farooq 's assassination and the subsequent shootings , both India and Pakistan initiated substantial and aggressive troop movements , and The Hindu of May 31 reported that the two countries " came close to war " on May 22 . |
| 12 | However , in that year , the scheme came close to disaster when nearly 20 per cent of the breed was found to be infected with brucellosis ( in comparison with a national rate of less than 5 per cent ) . |
| 13 | It was a memorable flight because the wings iced over , forcing the pilot to dive , and left Lord Aldington feeling that ‘ we came close to death ’ . |
| 14 | He remained with Vivienne , the bank , and years of exhaustion in which he came close to death . |
| 15 | A SURGEON told yesterday how stabbed policewoman Leslie Harrison came close to death as his team battled to save her . |
| 16 | He came close to death and is still trying to come to terms with the attack . |
| 17 | He dubbed himself ‘ The Dragon ’ , but was known as the ‘ Railway Rapist ’ as he picked his victims at random as they travelled on trains , waited on platforms or as the walked close to railway stations . |
| 18 | Piece of blue polythene sheeting used to carry coals also discovered close to scene of fire where human remains found . |
| 19 | She kept close to Spike , making sure he did n't wander out of her sight . |
| 20 | Even if the man drifted close to sleep , which the stillness encouraged , the union remained unbroken . |
| 21 | Where she would lie still , huddled close to fur scarred and torn , half dead with cold and hunger . |
| 22 | Opposition groups claimed , however , that the government had halted voting in areas where the Parti démocratique gabonais ( PDG ) ( until recently the ruling and sole legal party — see p. 37445 ) appeared close to defeat . |
| 23 | When death struck close to home it was not easy to accept such counsel , nor to see God 's design . |
| 24 | A ceremonial sword was then taken from a wall and held close to Holiday . |