Example sentences of "something close [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was a miserable business pining for those who had gone and she thought back with something close to horror of the unhappiness she had endured while wishing herself elsewhere .
2 She looked at Scott , something close to pity in her voice .
3 Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind .
4 The first time he 'd seen her — all those years ago — he 'd felt something close to panic .
5 It was a measure of the strains of the day , or perhaps of the relief at finding the sympathetic Theodora , that the Archdeacon was precipitated into something close to indiscretion .
6 Indeed , the little Peugeot has achieved something close to cult status , a point highlighted by the eye-catching TV commercial for the XS .
7 The young man glared at Harry with something close to resentment .
8 Guynemer came to be accorded something close to deification .
9 He glares at Eva with something close to hatred .
10 Such futile efforts can only bring something close to contempt and suspicion among the millions of human beings who crave nothing more than a simple faith based on a credible ‘ god ’ .
11 Something close to shipwreck fever erupted over its cargo .
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