Example sentences of "close [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is n't necessarily a good thing , but at least it gives you the opportunity to advance those big blocks of troops close to his army . |
| 2 | He moved stealthily to the bedroom , to the wardrobe close to his bed . |
| 3 | Scott glanced at each of the policemen in turn , then motioned to the chairs close to his desk . |
| 4 | He has rented the cabin to get close to his boy . |
| 5 | It was a story close to his heart and dated back to 1964 , before the Vietnam War was being viewed with quite the same violent passions it was arousing in the late Sixties . |
| 6 | Macijauskas undertook a planned tour of villages in 1968 and found a subject close to his heart . |
| 7 | What little money he did have was spent on a record selected with extreme care which became , to his way of thinking , a possession close to his heart . |
| 8 | ‘ Madam , I judge that my lord of Gloucester has the welfare of his nephews close to his heart , ’ the chancellor told her . |
| 9 | Tonks has for months been juggling the possibility of an All Black tour to South Africa next year — something close to his heart — but was aware that the continuing divisions between the rugby groups in the Republic made such a tour impossible . |
| 10 | This border town , captured by Gloucester and clearly close to his heart , was reckoned by the exchequer to cost £700 a month in defence — a charge which brought relatively little by way of increased security in return . |
| 11 | David Whitaker devised the balance of the four main characters , drawing , perhaps predictably , from the literature close to his heart . |
| 12 | This border town , captured by Gloucester and clearly close to his heart , was reckoned by the exchequer to cost £700 a month in defence — a charge which brought relatively little by way of increased security in return . |
| 13 | ‘ You , nervous ! ’ she scoffed , and did n't resist when he took her in his arms , cradling her close to his heart . |
| 14 | Other songs : Include Stainsby Girls , inspired by a Middlesbrough school close to his heart . |
| 15 | For the time being , however , Trevor Phillips , the League 's commercial director , is playing his cards close to his chest . |
| 16 | No X-ray had been flashed up on the screen with a football-sized tumour for me to stare at , and my surgeon was playing his cards so close to his chest there was some doubt somewhere . |
| 17 | Then he kissed her hand and held it close to his chest . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's an S in it ! ’ said Quigley , who was still keeping his cards pretty close to his chest . |
| 19 | He himself had other plans , although for the moment he was keeping them fairly close to his chest . |
| 20 | The horror of the memory made it all too easy to choke and scream , but to her relief her performance was cut short in seconds as the door burst open , the light snapped on and she was in Penry 's arms , held close to his chest , and so glad to be there that not even her guilt could mar the joy of the moment . |
| 21 | But Blackburn boss Kenny Dalglish was keeping his cards traditionally close to his chest about Shearer , who is expected to challenge for an England place against Holland in Rotterdam next month . |
| 22 | But Blackburn boss Kenny Dalglish was keeping his cards traditionally close to his chest about Shearer , who is expected to challenge for an England place against Holland in Rotterdam next month . |
| 23 | Murphy is playing his cards close to his chest . |
| 24 | peers inscrutably at the neatly fanned playing cards he is clutching close to his chest . |
| 25 | So he booked in at the John Radcliffe Cardiac Unit … close to his home in Marlow . |
| 26 | There was an explosion close to his head . |
| 27 | His reddish-blond hair , slightly faded , evidently not clipped , was a little longer but still close to his head , already curling , giving him perhaps the youthful or angelic look of persons in Italian Renaissance paintings . |
| 28 | ‘ Too close to his head . |
| 29 | I put a bullet close to his head and he dived for cover . |
| 30 | He was later seen with a cartridge belt , filled with cartridges , around his waist and with the barrels of the gun close to his head . |