Example sentences of "we [vb past] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On our way to the fishing grounds off Iceland we passed close to the Faroes . |
| 2 | The misty peaks of Rhum were draped in heavy cloud and shot with rainbows as we passed close to the curious Sgurr of Eigg . |
| 3 | I think the last time you were here we were actually in the bottom half of the table but shot up to about seventh and since then once we got close to the people with games in hand and catching on the extra games we 've come up into the top three sometimes . |
| 4 | We stopped close to a small graveyard where a tribe of wild goats stared suspiciously at us from between the mounds of earth and bleak wooden crosses . |
| 5 | Towards mid-afternoon we camped close to the site of the old Shyok dam . |
| 6 | It was a memorable flight because the wings iced over , forcing the pilot to dive , and left Lord Aldington feeling that ‘ we came close to death ’ . |
| 7 | We had close to four hundred thousand Palestinians , we had almost a hundred and eighty thousand Indians , ninety thousand erm from Bangladesh , about eighty thousand Phillipinos and we had about also seventy five thousand Pakistanis and erm many other erm nationalities . |
| 8 | We stayed close to the radio and eventually heard a repeat of what proved to be Marshal Badoglio 's first and last broadcast to the nation , uttered in a mournful voice : |