Example sentences of "[vb past] close to [noun] " 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 | Then his face moved close to Jed 's , and he said , ‘ Are you interested in my daughter ? ’ |
| 3 | Culley moved close to Court , who fought the desire to flinch . |
| 4 | This was early music at its best — we were led somewhere new , moved close to tears , and booted back , smartly , into laughter . |
| 5 | Hazel moved close to Fiver and quietly edged him away from the others , feeding as he went . |
| 6 | Afterwards he could n't tell if he had dreamed it , but he was sure little Tero drew close to Maldita several times , trying to prop her up , and twice he felt Tero 's timid nudge of encouragement in his back when he was buckling with exhaustion . |
| 7 | The latest bomb exploded close to Downing Street on Friday night . |
| 8 | They were singing a folk-song , simple but moving , and Erika came close to tears . |
| 9 | Evelyn came close to Newman , dipped her head sideways . |
| 10 | Catherine came close to Morton and let her head droop on his shoulder . |
| 11 | Scathach came close to Tallis and they curled up together , her face buried in the fur collar of his clothing , his arms reaching into the warmth below her cloak . |
| 12 | He came close to Tallis , his red hair curling from below the fur hood , his eyes wide and searching . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The situation came close to manslaughter , and by its overt violence and the occupation of the assailant it is an exception . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | He remained with Vivienne , the bank , and years of exhaustion in which he came close to death . |
| 24 | A SURGEON told yesterday how stabbed policewoman Leslie Harrison came close to death as his team battled to save her . |
| 25 | He came close to death and is still trying to come to terms with the attack . |
| 26 | As his face came close to Edward 's , his breath hit him in a shocking wave . |
| 27 | In the beginning , more than fifteen years ago , when she was much slimmer and wore flared trousers , she seemed to enter a magnetic field whenever she came close to Tom . |
| 28 | The large nylon-clad bottom swished close to Charles ' face as he limped up after her . |
| 29 | They passed close to Dunster , which lay beneath a wooded hill looking ‘ as clear , as pure , as embrowned ’ as a Poussin landscape . |
| 30 | The jury returned , and passed close to Fagin . |