Example sentences of "close to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born to salty , honest East End folk — this was hinted at , the script sensibly avoiding the risk of fleshing them out — he had risen in the City to a financial position which permitted him to park his BMW beside the flash docklands flat , close to his rough but pure roots , in which he kept his nice French bird . |
| 2 | Ali bent down close to his ear and whispered : ‘ You in pain ? ’ |
| 3 | There was an explosion close to his head . |
| 4 | Charles said he knew it well , being just off Eaton Square and close to his place of work . |
| 5 | Or sometimes with a sharp crack of the whip close to his flanks . |
| 6 | Although Mr Brown , the anti-establishment populist , failed to come close to his win over Mr Clinton in Connecticut two weeks ago , he will undoubtedly fight on as a spoiler until the final primary in California in June . |
| 7 | For the time being , however , Trevor Phillips , the League 's commercial director , is playing his cards close to his chest . |
| 8 | ‘ Naw … ’ he edged back into the crowd , turned , and before the stranger could call after him , a voice spoke , close to his ear . |
| 9 | Every word of it had been a lie and to this truth Trent remained as totally committed now , close to his own death , as he had been when plotting the downfall of the groups he had penetrated . |
| 10 | He glanced at his watch , bringing it close to his face because of the poor light . |
| 11 | It was a story close to his heart and dated back to 1964 , before the Vietnam War was being viewed with quite the same violent passions it was arousing in the late Sixties . |
| 12 | How deep such bonds could go is suggested by a Sussex carter 's grandson who had been ‘ very happy ’ as a child brought up by his grandparents , ‘ much attached ’ to them , and who writes of how he later found a house for his ageing grandmother close to his own and nursed her through her last illness : ‘ no mother could have been more kind . ’ |
| 13 | Macijauskas undertook a planned tour of villages in 1968 and found a subject close to his heart . |
| 14 | His reddish-blond hair , slightly faded , evidently not clipped , was a little longer but still close to his head , already curling , giving him perhaps the youthful or angelic look of persons in Italian Renaissance paintings . |
| 15 | This was a little unfortunate , the topic being one close to his lordship 's heart and one he was inclined to explicate at some length . |
| 16 | He held a high-powered pair of night-glasses pressed close to his eyes . |
| 17 | What little money he did have was spent on a record selected with extreme care which became , to his way of thinking , a possession close to his heart . |
| 18 | After the disaster , Pitsligo spent many years in hiding , close to his old Buchan home . |
| 19 | It was a strange situation , which must have made a lasting impression on Richard , who was more than usually close to his mother . |
| 20 | Robin Dew equalled his personal best time of 15.4 secs. in the colts 100 metres , taking fourth place , and in the long jump he was also fourth in an excellent 4 metres 15 , the BAF standard for this event and close to his personal best . |
| 21 | He was fumbling with something close to his left side . |
| 22 | No X-ray had been flashed up on the screen with a football-sized tumour for me to stare at , and my surgeon was playing his cards so close to his chest there was some doubt somewhere . |
| 23 | The Baül poet is fully conscious that his value in the marketplace of the world is pitifully small ; that he is neither wealthy nor learned , yet he has this great compensation , for he has come close to his lover 's heart . |
| 24 | They savagely plucked feathers from it and were so carried away by their onslaught that they even continued attacking when the stuffed bird was held in the experimenter 's hand , close to his face . |
| 25 | Grant half swayed , half fell to the inboard telephone , lifting the speaker close to his mouth . |
| 26 | But Jonathan Ram continued to stride down the tumbledown street , his knife at the ready , drawing close to his beloved children . |
| 27 | ‘ Too close to his head . |
| 28 | Over his shoulder was hung a canvas bag which contained all his worldly possessions , and close to his left heel trotted a black and white collie . |
| 29 | close to his better eye , |
| 30 | I want to get close to his five Majors but it 's so darn hard . |