Example sentences of "close to my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he swung up close to my port side , waggling his wings frantically and pointing downwards . |
| 2 | I grew up close to my godmother so as a child I was inoculated with the theatre . |
| 3 | I am not amused to see him so close to my sister . ’ |
| 4 | She pressed close to my master , stroking his hand gently with one of her fingers . |
| 5 | ‘ My parents only told me a bit about them , ’ said Creggan , ‘ and I only saw one once when a pair came close to my homesite and my mother attacked them . |
| 6 | I hold you near , close to my heart , |
| 7 | ‘ Middlesbrough is a club close to my heart . |
| 8 | As the wood is an 8,000-year-old oak wood only eight miles from the centre of London on a site of special scientific interest , could not the Department have done more to insist that the important new road going close to my constituency was cut-and-cover ? |
| 9 | The Government recently announced the establishment of a further dozen environmentally sensitive areas , which included one close to my constituency on the south downs . |
| 10 | It was a weirdly intimate experience , holding this plump old woman close to my body , feeling her hair in my face , and yet she was a stranger . |
| 11 | A kea , New Zealand 's native parrot , swooped by out of the gloom , its green wings flapping round my head and its curved beak frighteningly close to my face . |
| 12 | ‘ She came to my bedside , put her candle close to my face and stared fiercely at me . |
| 13 | ‘ Growling horribly close to my ear , he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat , ’ he wrote . |
| 14 | He whispered something but so close to my ear the sound was distorted and I said , suppressing my voice to no more than a breath because it can be so harsh , ‘ Say it again . |
| 15 | Then Lollo 's voice said , close to my ear , " Yuck ! |
| 16 | was the seashell , close to my ear . |