Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It must be someone in your mother 's past , someone reasonably close to her . |
| 2 | It is quite a small world , and sooner or later we might be lucky enough to get someone really close to Leeds on the list . |
| 3 | One or two people at the other end were snoring and once someone quite close to me shouted in his sleep : |
| 4 | But as , presumably , they had been wiped off the face of the earth by someone pretty close to Ella Walsh or Rose Fox , there seemed little point in asking about them . |
| 5 | George Foreman , whose comeback as the roly-poly , cheeseburger contender has helped to hasten heavyweight boxing 's descent towards something dangerously close to the wide world of wrestling , recognised Lewis 's devastating performance as a sea change in the game . |
| 6 | The magazine , through his influence , became more regularized ; readers noted that something perilously close to marketing had intruded into its anarchy . |
| 7 | ‘ Jeff was my best friend and my brother ; he was my spiritual and musical mentor since 1972 and I never lost anybody this close to me before . |
| 8 | There was nothing like that , nothing even close to that before . |
| 9 | He took it seriously at first , affronted that anyone could say anything about anyone so close to him , but before very long , he saw the funny side . |