Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They come down on to the ground and immediately their wings break off close to the thorax . |
| 2 | If you walk reasonably close to the left side of the path there will probably be a natural barrier , such as a fence or wall , to reinforce the dog 's previous training routine . |
| 3 | But did pietism , I wonder , sail too close to the spirit of the Enlightenment ? |
| 4 | If you do n't have a garage , park as close to your home as possible , preferably somewhere where you can easily observe the car . |
| 5 | The only practical flaw I can find is some faintly uneven string-spacing at the nut , making the top E string too close to the B string and too far from the edge . |
| 6 | Make the request standing close to the child ; with a young child get down close to the height of the little one . |
| 7 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 8 | Contemporary with the alterations to the main east-west road , at least one or perhaps two possible public buildings were constructed immediately to the south on Sites 1 and 2 , each with a frontage carried on four columns and set so close to the road that the new roadside drains had to be diverted . |
| 9 | Get as close to subject as you can |
| 10 | You get as close to it as you can and get your brother out while we deal with the hijackers . ’ |
| 11 | Get really close to the happy animals at Monkey Mountain , Meerkat Mound and Penguin Bay with dramatic underwater viewing . |
| 12 | Although Satan has the power to hurt people who get too close to him , his power is not unstoppable ! |
| 13 | But if you find it , under NO circumstances get too close to it . |
| 14 | ‘ Not get too close to it ? |
| 15 | Motorists who drive too close to the car in front of them at high speed are being targeted by Cheshire police . |
| 16 | If you situate the cable tidy as close to your tank as possible , you can cut the wires on your equipment fairly short , to get rid of all those unsightly trailing cables . |
| 17 | ‘ And it 's not just the pace of the serves that does it , it 's also the fact that they go so close to the line . ’ |
| 18 | Alone , the two girls were playful as they went about their tasks , mischievous at times , even carefully boisterous ; but as soon as their father came in they would sink into a beseeching drabness , cower as close to being invisible as they could . |
| 19 | Many crustaceans , indeed , have done so — sand shrimps and beach hoppers stay quite close to the sea ; pill bugs and penny sows have colonised moist ground throughout the land . |
| 20 | When Mr Major learned the result , he acted as if he had seen Chelsea win the Cup rather than his own MPs come so close to humiliating him . |
| 21 | Psychological utilitarianism 's assumptions are hard to recognize , because they come so close to popular discourses of the individual , and of gender and other social relations . |
| 22 | Self-important democratic politicians who have been themselves well-treated by tyrants of all stripes come dangerously close to the stance of classic fellow-travellers like George Bernard Shaw — in Shaw 's words , as seven million starved to death in Russia in 1932 , ‘ I have never eaten so well . ’ |
| 23 | While it is the Catholic Christian who will most naturally speak in this way , it is not unknown for the Evangelical Christian to make statements which come fairly close to that . |
| 24 | As musicians , jazz poets and exponents of hardhitting lyrics there are n't many outfits that come even close to matching them for dynamism or style . |
| 25 | ‘ I wass quite close to it , after all — much closer than I thought . ’ |
| 26 | Unknown to most people , he had also driven a Formula Two racing car belonging to world-champion racing driver Graham Hill around the track at Thruxton — and come perilously close to disaster . |
| 27 | In London IBM had , according to one journalist , ‘ come pretty close to perfecting the art of understanding British politics ’ in addition to spending a lot of time ‘ explaining technical aspects of information technology ’ to British civil servants . |
| 28 | His disciplinary record was appalling and in modern times only Willie Johnson of Rangers and Billy Bremner of Leeds come remotely close to seizing his crown . |
| 29 | Were it not for the extreme aggression that subsequently erupts when the males come too close to one another , superfecundation would undoubtedly be even more common than it is , but some males will never dare to risk a mating with a dominant tom-cat watching from nearby . |
| 30 | The effect of such poisons is to cause some children to be born as monsters , and the people who venture too close to contaminated land sicken and die . ’ |