Example sentences of "[vb base] close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Topstitch close to fold . |
| 2 | They get close to clients and do their best for them . |
| 3 | She saw the taller of the boys hesitate , then touch the arm of the other and lean close to whisper something . |
| 4 | During the summer breeding gulls , skuas , terns and cormorants feed close to land ; the rest range widely over the ocean , browsing at or close to the surface in single-species or mixed flocks . |
| 5 | Girls were encouraged to ask for help , play with dolls , take an interest in clothes and dressing up and stay close to parents and discouraged from being noisy and playing rough games . |
| 6 | Ski tracks start close to Kandersteg 's Hotel Victoria in Switzerland |
| 7 | Only current captain David Platt and Chris Woods come close to Walker with 29 and 27 caps under the beleaguered English boss and the Wednesday goalkeeper has also suffered an alarming dip in form in the past few weeks . |
| 8 | Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God . |
| 9 | Only termites , leafcutter ants ( tribe Attini ) and some social bees ( the stingless melipones ) even come close to ants in their large-scale efforts to alter their environments and cycle materials through food webs . |
| 10 | Oystermen come close to victory |
| 11 | You did n't have to go in for banging drums and shaking rattles to be a shaman ; you had simply to have suffered tremendously , been torn apart , come close to death . |
| 12 | The last-named gave to the Hospitallers land in Stalisfield and Oare close to Faversham in Kent ; and a descendant of the same name held a manor at Ospring , which was known as Cade 's manor as late as the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | Thus the world 's biggest fisheries occur close to continents . |
| 14 | Grill close to heat until cheese is melted , barely bubbling and aromatic . |
| 15 | Together , DOS and Windows now have close to 90% of the world market for PC operating software . |
| 16 | Whilst originally described as a universal buffer for restriction enzymes , we have found that all modification enzymes required for cDNA synthesis have close to 100% activity in 0.5 KGB buffer . |
| 17 | Several such enzymes including Alu I and Rsa I have close to 100% activity in 0.5 KGB . |