Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know much about marathon running and I shall try and stick as close to Mota as possible . |
| 2 | If you are sailing in this curved air flow you can not sail as close to the wind as you could if you had been in clear wind . |
| 3 | Increasing your bargaining power is not an end in itself but usually arises because you can not move sufficiently close to your opponent 's position to gain a settlement . |
| 4 | The physical effect of this is that all test particles which fall into the non-scalar curvature singularity feel infinite tidal forces , but observers can move arbitrarily close to the singularity on other curves and feel no untoward effects . |
| 5 | If The Lord of the Rings should approach too close to ‘ Gospel-truth ’ , to the Christian myth in which Tolkien himself believed , it might forfeit its status as a story and become at worst a blasphemy , an ‘ Apocryphal gospel ’ , at best a dull allegory rehearsing in admittedly novel form what everyone ought to know already . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't go too close to her , chum . |
| 7 | Never had Leith come so close to hitting a man . |
| 8 | Abruptly , the sensations she 'd felt that night in St Lucia , when they 'd come so close to making love , engulfed her with such force that she felt weak at the knees . |
| 9 | If you can get so close to barbel , with or without them knowing it , you should take the opportunity to study how they use the available cover to sneak under ; how they move like silent wraiths across the bottom , and how they rake over the gravel on the bottom with their barbules . |
| 10 | But we ca n't get so close to freeing Nuadu and fail now . ’ |
| 11 | On the one hand , his invasiveness of Johnson triggers an immediate cringe : on the other , were not Boswell so crass so frequently , his readers could not get so close to Johnson . |
| 12 | However , coupled with a European high-speed rail network , owned by an EC track authority with both national and private operators running trains on it , the high-speed travel market in Europe could well come as close to perfect contestability as anything . |
| 13 | Although yesterday 's increase in rates intensified fears that the economy could come perilously close to recession next year , the instant judgement of most economists was that the worst would be avoided . |
| 14 | She was nobody 's doormat — though she 'd come perilously close to it with Hugh — but it was vital , in the present state of her finances , that she continue to live on board Water Gypsy . |
| 15 | Would n't it come perilously close to desecration ? |
| 16 | ‘ Watch , do n't get too close to those in front . |
| 17 | Do n't get too close to the breaking part of the wave . |
| 18 | In other words , exploit them , but do not get too close to them or show them any affection . |
| 19 | He was content just to be a part of the pack , and Ollie was prepared to allow this , providing he did n't get too close to the family . |
| 20 | ‘ Let's hope he does n't get too close to the swamp . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You know , Anne , you can get too close to a problem and not see it properly . |
| 22 | Nothing living , it seemed , would come anywhere close to this long abandoned dwelling . |
| 23 | Milligan moved to the Sussex hills because he could n't find anywhere close to London ‘ which did n't involve living on a motorway ’ , but XR3 prosperity has pursued him . |