Example sentences of "he [verb] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hopped close to my feet and waited till I presented him with a bun all to himself , and he had hard work nibbling it and taking it along with him to his home . |
| 2 | Now Henry thought about it , she seemed to enter rooms which he was in carefully , keeping her back to the wall ; if he got close to her , she nearly always moved away quickly , usually making sure their bodies did not touch . |
| 3 | His horse , like Sharpe 's , had been slowed by the plough furrows in the rye field , but the Frenchman rowelled it on as he got close to Sharpe . |
| 4 | The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice . |
| 5 | When he brought her back another drink he moved close to her trying to have a conversation . |
| 6 | As he drew close to the hut , a sense of dread took hold of him . |
| 7 | He paced close to his car . |
| 8 | He remained with Vivienne , the bank , and years of exhaustion in which he came close to death . |
| 9 | The most obvious expression of this was Maxse 's ‘ radical plutocracy ’ enquiry , launched in the wake of the Marconi scandal , when he came close to depicting the Asquith government as tools of a shadowy ‘ cosmopolitan finance ’ . |
| 10 | So did Campbell , although he came close to it with his emphasis upon Christ as the perfect penitent who makes the perfect confession . |
| 11 | Mellor , it will be recalled , was the unfortunate minister charged with turning the pig 's ear of Margaret Thatcher 's commercial broadcast policy into a silk purse — a miracle he came close to performing . |
| 12 | A loose end , Kirov reminded himself as he came close to the man . |
| 13 | Newmarket Magistrates told Youds he came close to being disqualified for a speeding offence which warranted a six unit fine . |
| 14 | He came close to the stranger and sniffed , as Hazel had done . |
| 15 | He came close to joining the Italian giant Ferrari but did eventually join an overseas manufacturer in 1954 , when he joined Ferrari 's rivals , Maserati . |
| 16 | Between 1903 and 1912 local activists prevented the outright split in the party to which émigré divisions were leading , Lenin himself faced powerful challenges from within the Bolshevik faction , notably from Bogdanov , and he came close to losing control altogether . |
| 17 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 18 | He spun around so fast that he came close to falling over , his heart leaping like a bird in a snare . |
| 19 | A week later he came close to winning another gold in the Scottish Men 's Championships but his Perth Rink was pipped in the finals . |
| 20 | He was so unsuccessful that he came close to packing it in until he allowed his gloomy demeanour to shine on stage . |
| 21 | He came close to Tallis , his red hair curling from below the fur hood , his eyes wide and searching . |
| 22 | Chilperic 's wish to appear as a cultivated monarch is not in question ; he wrote poetry , however badly , and he showed some interest in such issues as the alphabet , to which he wished to add four letters , and in theology , where he came close to heresy , when he decided to abolish the distinctions between the persons of the Trinity . |
| 23 | He came close to death and is still trying to come to terms with the attack . |
| 24 | Anyway , Aggie — ’ He sidled close to her and looked into her face , saying , ‘ That little ‘ un 's got under me skin . |
| 25 | He parked close to where the land sloped downwards to a narrow pebble beach , and switched the engine off . |
| 26 | Pyjamas seems afraid of them : he stays close to the wall . |
| 27 | She stepped sideways , she did n't want to pull away from him but all the same this time she would have liked to wake up from her somnambulism to find herself back in bed with Cati , dreaming of sweetness and lovers ' words , but he pressed close to her , and said , ‘ You ca n't go yet , not yet . |
| 28 | That evening he addressed close to 200 members and guests of the Metropolitan Section at the Institution of Electrical Engineers on the Thames Embankment . |
| 29 | His hand slid up her arm and he stepped close to her . |
| 30 | THE FBI said yesterday that the Texas cult leader David Koresh had indicated that he appears close to receiving a sign from God , implying that an end to his 20-day standoff with federal agents might be near . |