Example sentences of "[verb] too close to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Germany , this spirit often takes the form of a ‘ bergmonck ’ or huge , pale monk who wards off travellers venturing too close to a mine rich with lodes of gold . |
| 2 | That approach was also rejected , because it was getting too close to a rating system , but it would have had some logic , a factor that is entirely outwith the system with which we are now confronted . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , Anne , you can get too close to a problem and not see it properly . |
| 4 | I think your lombardoi is abrading her upper lip on something — possibly through digging too close to a rock , so that her upper lip gets rubbed . |
| 5 | His neat , Astaire-like side-step to the road where he would rather die under a shining new Merc than to have to go too close to a cripple . |
| 6 | In everything , a compromise is the answer and by not expecting the horse to go too close to a potentially spooky object , kidding the horse that you never intended him to go near it , will avert an argument or tension . |