Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] close to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game was already lost in Berne when Gough went and I think the reason for that was that the Scots had failed to find the fire that brought them so close to success in Sweden . |
| 2 | Twice eighteen month old Pickle dragged himself home close to death with the noose pulled tight around his neck |
| 3 | The magazine , through his influence , became more regularized ; readers noted that something perilously close to marketing had intruded into its anarchy . |
| 4 | For Bradford Northern , this overwhelming defeat puts them perilously close to relegation with only two games remaining and now with a much inferior points scoring record compared with Salford with whom they are level . |
| 5 | But their own preoccupations with rational , thinking subjects often bring them too close to psychology 's notion of the subject for them to question it . |