Example sentences of "[adv prt] close to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tow pilot can help by allowing his aircraft to climb away , gaining speed rather than holding it down close to the ground . |
| 2 | Philip , crouched behind one of the big beeches that grew right down close to the pool , watched the boy for his reaction . |
| 3 | Make the request standing close to the child ; with a young child get down close to the height of the little one . |
| 4 | The survey added greatly to our knowledge of the glacial deposits , which were laid down close to the southern limit of ice advance during the Anglian Stage . |
| 5 | I drained one of the small glasses and set it down close to the wall on the floor . |
| 6 | Sarah collected some mugs from a cupboard and set them down close to the coffee maker ; she looked impatiently at the level of coffee in the jug , as if the slowness of the process was a familiar annoyance . |
| 7 | He laid the thin little thing down close to the blazing fire , and he moved to the table and poured milk and wine into a cup , and sliced bread and meat . |
| 8 | We taxied in close to the runway and were all pushed down the exit ladder to make a sprint for the terminal building ; no automatic concertinaed walkways here . |
| 9 | However , the newsletter , which figures the chip will start life at 50MHz , reckons that performance will come in close to the R4000 . |
| 10 | The session was short , the smile fading from the face of the accused as Mrs Balanchine described in detail how the car had come storming around a blind corner and swung in close to the wall where they were waiting to cross . |
| 11 | They come down on to the ground and immediately their wings break off close to the thorax . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean , d' you think he got back from the mission he was on , ’ said Lee , putting his face right up close to the picture . |
| 13 | The first thing Carlie did when she got to the foster home was pull the plastic footrest up close to the TV : ‘ Do n't talk to me when ‘ Young and Restless ’ is on , ’ she warned the foster mother who was standing behind her . |
| 14 | Maggie pulled a chair up close to the fire . |
| 15 | That 's why they built the cemetery up close to the workhouse , so they could take them over on a barrow . |
| 16 | There were people , people everywhere — huddled inside doorways trying to keep dry , crowding into the small , old-fashioned shops , and buying fruit and vegetables at bargain prices from the swarthy hawkers whose barrows were drawn up close to the kerb . |
| 17 | The coffee table had taken flight to one side of the room , and two chairs had been drawn up close to the fireplace with their backs to the chesterfield . |
| 18 | They ended up close to the Embassy in a road called South Audley Street . |
| 19 | The detachment forms up close to the main unit where it can offer support , either by using long range weapons such as bows or hand guns , or by employing hand-to-hand weapons to threaten an advancing enemy 's exposed flanks . |
| 20 | A weird isolated structure like a huge cabin reared up close to the harbour entrance . |
| 21 | Cardiff whirled back to see that Pearce 's face was squashed up close to the glass , still thirty feet from the reception doors ; face contorted , mouth wide and agonised . |
| 22 | The leg is kept completely straight , with the hands held up close to the body as a rearguard defence . |
| 23 | Every time Jim tried to pass the Ford moved up close to the Renault 's rear bumper , or rather the towbar protruding from it , and Jim was forced to ease back again . |
| 24 | These Regions have had a declared policy to extend their supply area with SCHEMES identified as Gas Gathering , Rural Gasification or Village Infill , but until recent years most infill work has tended to be carried out close to the gas supply area , with only occasional forays outside these localities . |
| 25 | The rear of the church overlooks the Piazza Fontana , back close to the Duomo . |
| 26 | Flowering shoots of winter jasmine , J. nudiflorum , should be cut back to within two or three buds from the main stem , while the oldest stems on honeysuckle should be cut back close to the base . |