Example sentences of "[verb] too close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick Stewart , secretary of the CFA , however , said yesterday that it should be made clear that the pinger was not the answer to the problem of submarines operating too close to fishing vessels . |
| 2 | Look at it this way : Track Two is now doing just what it was set up to do in just the situation they foresaw : a weak British government getting too close to Moscow . |
| 3 | It was getting too close to reality . |
| 4 | Elsa departed because she could n't take Fagg 's oft-repeated loud muttering of ‘ Swiss maybe , but Swiss-Kraut certainly ’ ; two male Chinese took umbrage when he denounced them as Nips ; an observing Hindu became revolted when Mauleverer , an occasional resident , subjected him to intense cross-questioning about whether the liver was from a Dutch calf and was being served sufficiently rare ; and a delicious-looking Filipino , who strayed too close to Fishbane at breakfast , received a pinch which made her hysterical . |
| 5 | That was my fault because I got too close to Senna . |
| 6 | That was my fault because I got too close to Senna . |
| 7 | The toots of trees planted too close to buildings may penetrate foundations and damage water mains . |
| 8 | Either you have a faulty fuel pump which allows fuel to bleed back in to the tank or the petrol pipe is routed too close to sources of heat which is causing vapour locking in the pipe I would guess it is faulty . |