Example sentences of "it [vb past] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unigate 's attitude to the liquid milk market has changed markedly since it sold close to half its business to Dairy Crest four years ago . |
| 2 | The Tayif agreement was supposed to be a formula for peace , but last week it came close to becoming a recipe for one of the biggest , almost certainly the most ferocious , battles of the 14 ½-year war . |
| 3 | Finally it came close to emulating Midland 's Crocker fiasco in America . |
| 4 | Fleming went on to describe how the nasal secretions of the patient ( himself , in fact ) were cultured , and how a round microbe or coccus first grew and then was destroyed where it came close to the nasal secretion . |
| 5 | In 1983/84 , it came close to collapse after making heavy losses on loans to an Indian commodity group named Esal , which was involved in the subsequent collapse of Johnson Matthey . |
| 6 | Donaldson turned and saw that Bobo had her arm through the bars , prodding at the basin with a straw and rocking it so that it came close to spilling its contents within her reach . |
| 7 | It drifted close to one of the massive posts and he went to tie up , returning to the puzzled Meredith and looking down on her thoughtfully . |
| 8 | It hovered close to me and I felt a coldness on my cheek . |