Example sentences of "was [vb pp] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agent for the shipping line was standing on an upturned milk crate outside the pool hut which was situated close to the entrance to the wharfs . |
| 2 | It was situated close to the United Nations headquarters as well as being only three blocks away from the African American Institute which Mobuto had requested to see at some point during his visit . |
| 3 | The bistro was situated close to the occult bookshop . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most characteristic British example is that in the civitas capital at Silchester , where it was the second largest building in the town after the forum and was situated close to the south gate . |
| 5 | There are many printed plays , and The Fashionable Lover was placed close to The Fatal Divorce . |
| 6 | As he clasped her waist , instead of jumping down she slid her body down his , so that his arms remained holding her and she was pressed close to him . |
| 7 | He had already crossed the whole length Of the hall and was pressed close to two rabbits , a buck and doe , each of whom was fully as large as Cowslip . |
| 8 | Hannah Dooley was pressed close to Sheldon parry , the born-again television director , crooning softly to herself . |
| 9 | Not all were tankers — the second , a South Korean-run oilfield service vessel , was caught close to a Saudi offshore field and sunk . |
| 10 | No reasonable person could have objected — nor did they — when , shortly after the death of the Hizbollah bomber , an impressive steel anti-terrorist shield was installed close to No. 10 . |
| 11 | Mick was perched close to it , with a bowl of hot water and suds at his feet . |
| 12 | The mantle currently being sampled at a distal ocean island must have undergone fractionation of U/Pb when it was located close to a cooling ridge ( in the case of Madeira ) or a cooling plume head ( in the case of the Cameroon line ) . |
| 13 | MacNeill Weir in his guide says that about the year 1827 a large distillery was built close to the River Laggan at Mulindry . |
| 14 | Productivity was concentrated close to the surface ; chlorophyll a values were high in summer and a daily peak production of over 300 mg C m 2 was recorded , decreasing rapidly below 1 m ( Heywood , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | But following an all night drink and drugs party he was found close to the Bridge of Sighs … having fallen from the top floor of this house . |
| 16 | His bicycle was found close to the start of a forest trail . |
| 17 | He was found close to overhead electricity railway cables . |
| 18 | His large untidy head was set close to shoulders which rubbed against the long lobes of his ears . |
| 19 | His chair was pulled close to the stove so that he could prop one elbow against the chimney as he studied the pages of his newspaper . |
| 20 | Eleanor smiled and pushed a sodden lock of hair under her hood , which was pulled close to her face by a drawstring . |
| 21 | The most beautiful part of the ceremony was the delight on Todd 's face as he was wheeled close to the altar to receive the Eucharist with his arms outstretched . |
| 22 | By accepting the role of victim he glorified his own suffering and was brought close to Christ . |
| 23 | On 14 December 1991 , the south-southeast-trending fracture widened ( maximum extension by April 1992 , 1.5m ) , lava was erupted close to the summit , and by 15 December activity had moved down to a site 2,400m a.s.l. where the fracture intersects the western cliff wall of the Valle del Bove . |
| 24 | Tirpitz was moored close to the rocks on the right |
| 25 | Yesterday a team aboard a high-powered pilot launch was guided close to the school of whales by a spotter plane . |
| 26 | By the time he was finished , Devlin 's hair was cropped close to the skull . |
| 27 | It included several hamlets and scattered farms within its bounds as well as the village that was clustered close to the church and the ruined castle . |
| 28 | As the fixture was in aid of disabled veterans of the Great War , it was held close to Armistice Day each subsequent year . |