Example sentences of "so [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The face he leaned so confidentially close to Harry 's was glimmering with triumph and self-importance . |
| 2 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |
| 3 | And if the Soviet leader kept silent in Peking in May , as hundreds of thousands shouted his name during the demonstrations at Tiananmen , he seems the more likely to say nothing which might inflame passions so comparatively close to home . |
| 4 | All these memories are connected incoherently to my mother : the oozing uterine passage closing in on Superman ; the dead man disclosed by nuns [ so pretty and so erotically close to the nightclub ] ; and the sadness of Limelight where , sitting in the dark with her I knew her pleasure at the tale was different to mine , an adult one , beyond me . |
| 5 | I also considered that big bream were far too shy to tolerate the presence of a punt , with all the inevitable disturbance that punts cause , so relatively close to the swim . |
| 6 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |
| 7 | How could she , of all people , have come so perilously close to being swept away by desire ? |