Example sentences of "come close to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wo n't come close to the lodge . |
| 2 | In the mid 1960s a dominant group of Kikuyu , who were close to the Kenyatta family , determined that neither Odinga nor Mboya would come close to the presidency . |
| 3 | ‘ But at least I could come close to the song of electricity . |
| 4 | Having said that , lately I 've heard him and he 's trying to get back some of his fire , but the originals , the ‘ Disraeli Gears ’ album and the Bluesbreakers … he does n't come close to the fire that 's on those songs any more . |
| 5 | If , as recent work has suggested ( Ch.1 ) , the sustained growth of population from the doldrums of the fifteenth century began to affect the economy in the early years of the sixteenth century rather than previously , this would come close to the period when the volume of criticism of enclosures became more vocal and more explicit . |