Example sentences of "and [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have arrived at chapter 22 , but before we deal with it in detail , we must look quickly at another story that lies between Isaac 's birth and his coming so soon and so close to death . |
| 2 | The vehicle was parked on a yellow line and so close to the Market Street junction that vehicles emerging from that road had to swing out onto the wrong side of the High Street . |
| 3 | After the ceremony there was a reception at the bride 's home Malmesbury House , which is a most attractive house and so close to the Cathedral that guests could walk there easily . |
| 4 | Indeed , the pineal of a New Zealand reptile known as the tuatara is pigmented and so close to the surface that it looks similar to a real eye . |
| 5 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 6 | We never looked to encounter an armed company in the forest , and so close to Leicester . ’ |
| 7 | It hardly seems sensible for a reporter doing his or her job properly to ignore a source so influential and so close to the seat of power . |
| 8 | The faculty is based mainly at the Medical School within the central area of the University and thus close to the centre of the city . |
| 9 | Susan Bradley 's voice , at first apologetic then conspiratorial and finally close to tears , squeaked into his ear in a long monologue of complaint and desperation . |
| 10 | At around 6am we heard heavy machinegun fire from the direction of the Deni , the investigative branch of the PDF , about half a mile from the commission headquarters and dangerously close to US and Panamanian civilian housing . |
| 11 | Once , when she caught Cissie with her head down , drying herself in the heat from the fire with her hair hanging over her eyes and dangerously close to the flames , her heart had turned somersaults . |
| 12 | This is according to Angela , who was still married to him then , and still close to him . |
| 13 | We lived in Shepherds Bush in Loftus Road , in the shadow of Queen 's Park Rangers ' ground and also close to the great White City Stadium . |
| 14 | A conveniently situated hotel , close to the fashionable shopping street P.C. Hoofstraat and the major museums and also close to the Leidseplein and Vondelpark . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Drucker concluded about decision analysis that : ‘ A decision should always be made at lowest level and as close to the scene of action as possible … |
| 18 | She says the Government has starved the health service , and now close to an election it comes up with money . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're no fun these days , ’ said Bella sulkily , moving back down the room to stand facing Johnny , and fairly close to him . |
| 20 | According to Thomas Edwards [ q.v. ] , a friend despite their differences , he was consumptive and often close to death , and rarely able to preach . |
| 21 | A few luxuries have been smuggled in by canoe from the Solomons , which Bougainville is geographically and culturally close to . |
| 22 | Fiszbach himself , a former PUWP party secretary in Gdansk , was a leading party liberal , Deputy Speaker of parliament , and reputedly close to Walesa . |
| 23 | He supported Parliament 's measures against blasphemy and the Adultery Act of 1650 , though he regarded them as inadequate and insufficiently close to scripture . |
| 24 | Looking haggard , drawn , and almost close to tears , Keith , 34 , said : ‘ Oh God , this is the most difficult interview I 've ever done in the whole of my life . |
| 25 | This modern Club is set on a pine-clad hillside and yet close to a lively and fashionable resort . |
| 26 | TP280 , a Mk.XVIII , a Griffon-powered machine , longer and much heavier than the ‘ lX TE566 , was running a little behind schedule and perilously close to the show deadline . |
| 27 | Panicked , angry and perilously close to tears , Isabel sprang for the door . |
| 28 | He became convinced that the horses were sensing his moods and feelings and were anticipating his wishes through telepathy , and he proved its existence by using pairs of closely bonded or empathic horses ( horses who were mentally and emotionally close to each other ) in a series of experiments . |
| 29 | Henry Blake experimentally proved the existence of empathy between horses through using pairs of closely bonded horses who were mentally and emotionally close to each other ; and he discovered that horses could communicate with some horses through empathy , but not with others . |
| 30 | The article was n't particularly poignant but it did , in places , slide too near to home and too close to the bone . |