Example sentences of "so close " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Lucy 's silky warm skin all along her , arms wrapped round each other , so close that nothing could come between . |
| 2 | So close that Jay did n't know where she ended and Lucy began . |
| 3 | I want to kiss you like a butterfly on mescaline , all over in a flurry of delirium , I want to bite you to the bones , to be so close to you there materialises a planet called us . |
| 4 | Lucy gasped and moved her hand on Jay 's shoulders , kissed her with fire , thrust her whole body so close , head to toe . |
| 5 | I think I knew it would n't hold , but I was so close . |
| 6 | It all looked so close , so welcoming , so immediate . |
| 7 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 8 | The analogy is so close that Alan Kimmel of Fitchburg State College describes rumour ( New York Science Times , June 4 1991 ) as a sort of opportunistic virus that thrives on fear and uncertainty . |
| 9 | But he came so close . |
| 10 | World View : So close yet still far apart : Timothy Garton Ash reflects on what it means when Germans start behaving like Poles , and Poles like Germans |
| 11 | It is hard to think of two other nations in Europe which are so close and yet , still , despite many noble efforts on both sides , so very far apart . |
| 12 | Hamnett and Rosen became so close so quickly that May 's magazine was scrapped at the last minute in favour of a version reworked by Rosen . |
| 13 | They seemed so close , just behind me ! |
| 14 | An enormous bomb fell on a place nearby called Spurgeon 's Tabernacle , so close that it blew in all the windows and knocked the marquee for six . |
| 15 | The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policeman can see them . |
| 16 | [ they ] work so close together , yet they are , so to speak , utterly different in direction . |
| 17 | Chaste , but so close that if one of them is sad the laughter of the other immediately fills the void in him ’ ( p. 330 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Having been so close to winning the title in the past few years I thought this was going to be my chance but the draws have just dried up and I ca n't seem to get near fish , ’ said Dave from Hednesford , Staffordshire . |
| 19 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 20 | Oblivious to us swanning by , they show no emotions , unlike me , all full of excitement at so many and so close . |
| 21 | We are so close so equal . |
| 22 | I did n't make friends easily , but the funny thing is that some of those I went to school with , and was n't so close to , have become good friends in later life . |
| 23 | When you have been so close to death and even closer to permanent serious injury then every day becomes a bonus . ’ |
| 24 | Flying in the face of the facts , he prophesied that the economic crisis was so close that there was no time to build the party : the RCP must join the Labour Party , whose working class members , given Trotskyist leadership , would become revolutionary under the pressure of events . |
| 25 | That was what caused the hysteria and enthusiasm and so , I felt that if the band on stage was at least so close to his sense of humour that he felt comfortable with them , if the crew and all the support system was so strong that he could relax enough to enjoy the crowd , only then would it get magnetic and spontaneous . |
| 26 | AS CHILDREN , Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and his sister Judith were so close that their father called them Punch and Judy . |
| 27 | Nothing is invisible to radar , but a stealthy aircraft shows up over the background noise only at so close a range that radar , which has dominated air and combat for two generations , is virtually useless against it . |
| 28 | Human beings have never touched me so nearly as now when ‘ Nature ’ was so close : I think , too , I never before struck such firm roots into human hearts ’ . |
| 29 | The Christian and the caring humanist can not remain unconcerned for the plight of the people of the Third World who live so close to starvation . |
| 30 | As we sat there in that noisy , smoke-filled place I was deeply conscious of his physical presence , so close and so disturbingly animal , almost electric in its restrained , pulsing sexuality . |