Example sentences of "close [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our cottage lay on stubby cliffs close by the sea . |
| 2 | The bed that Boy climbed into that morning , knowing that he would n't sleep , but wanting just to lie there a while , was on the twentieth floor of a council block right close by the river on the east side of the city . |
| 3 | In a London teaching hospital close by the river , from which he could in his more masochistic moments glimpse the window of his own office , Dr. Charles Freeborn , Controller of the Forensic Science Service , all six foot four of him , lay rigidly in his narrow bed , his nose peaked high above the methodical fold of the sheet , his white hair a haze against the whiter pillow . |
| 4 | There were houses of turf and stone close by the river , and sometimes they passed rowboats , but the flatboat was sailing up against a rock wall it could not scale . |
| 5 | Towards the end of the 11th century Gundulph , Bishop of Rochester , looking for a site to build for himself and his successors a manor house , chose a spot close by the river at Halling . |
| 6 | ‘ The wild duck wherries to the distant flood … ''Whizz goes the peewit o'er the ploughman 's team/ with many a whew and whirl and sudden scream … ’ 'A sedge bird built its little benty nest/ close by the meadow-pool and wooden brig … ’ |
| 7 | Molly had stood beside him and had pointed out one particularly small drawer close by the door . |
| 8 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 9 | Situated in the Heart of Coventry adjacent to the famous Cathedral , and close by the Museum of British Road Transport . |
| 10 | A carved chair close by the altar , a small ancient-looking chest , and an ornately-carved table which looks for all the world like a chest on legs , may well be Jacobean . |
| 11 | An obsidian plaza close by the road-block was almost deserted . |