Example sentences of "come so close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galadriel Hopkins had rarely come so close to begging . |
| 2 | That Ramprakash should have come so close to being suspended for his Fenner 's folly was sad but instructive . |
| 3 | She had come so close to death . |
| 4 | Or simply because they had come so close to rescuing him ? |
| 5 | Majority foreign ownership was not permitted under Argentinian law , and the fact that the Iberia stake had now come so close to the maximum threshold , was seen as imperilling the whole privatization process . |
| 6 | She had come so close to losing the man she loved . |
| 7 | It was the manifest failure of the Bolsheviks to retain the confidence of the masses , their resort to brutal coercion , which enabled the openly reactionary Whites to come so close to overthrowing them . |
| 8 | After the Ken Noakes episode in her life , she had never allowed anyone to come so close to her . |
| 9 | Predictably , though , there was little resemblence between this defeated Liverpool side and the one that came so close to being knocked out of the FA Cup in the semi-final against Portsmouth at Highbury . |
| 10 | The first major success of the year went to Ian Horrox who succeeded on the Kilnsey route he came so close to finishing last year . |
| 11 | They came so close to doing that . |
| 12 | The adventurous plan came so close to working and certainly won Ipswich a host of new admirers . |
| 13 | The Hudson 's Bay Company was so deeply involved in the struggle with the French in North America , and came so close to being overwhelmed , that nobody stepped forward to try to take its place . |
| 14 | Although Palmer 's theory of the physics of colour was mistaken ( he held there were three discrete forms of light ) , it is remarkable that this entrepreneur and tradesman came so close to a modern account of the physiology of colour vision . |
| 15 | In the intimidating atmosphere of the Mararios Stadium they silenced the partisan crowd with an early goal and then came so close to getting a second which would surely have put them through to a money spinning meeting with Paris St Germaine . |
| 16 | Last term Milne 's men came so close to grabbing more silverware , finishing second in the table and losing the Cup final to double-winners Galatasaray . |
| 17 | The sturdy Scot , who came so close to doing precisely that at Pebble Beach 12 months ago , is convinced the gruelling par-70 course demands wonderful , long iron play . |
| 18 | ‘ Sally was dad 's lynch-pin and her death was a great shock , especially coming so close to the loss of my mum . |
| 19 | Never had Leith come so close to hitting a man . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When Mr Major learned the result , he acted as if he had seen Chelsea win the Cup rather than his own MPs come so close to humiliating him . |
| 22 | Psychological utilitarianism 's assumptions are hard to recognize , because they come so close to popular discourses of the individual , and of gender and other social relations . |