Example sentences of "go close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forwards exerted pressure from time to time , with Thompson and the substitute Garcia both going close to scoring . |
| 2 | As the wood is an 8,000-year-old oak wood only eight miles from the centre of London on a site of special scientific interest , could not the Department have done more to insist that the important new road going close to my constituency was cut-and-cover ? |
| 3 | Apparently , whenever she 'd gone close to this man he 'd shooed her away , recoiling from her and muttering , ‘ Pork , pork , pork , VD , VD , white woman , white woman . ’ |
| 4 | John the former Manchester City manager is there , a former manager of Shrewsbury as well , he 's with Alan and Blackburn have just gone close to going two one up . |
| 5 | Each side in turn went close to dispensing with extra time , Crown hitting a post then Paul Gascoigne having a chip turned on to the bar . |
| 6 | Beenhakker , in his more candid moments , went close to admitting that senior players were in charge at the Bernabeu . |
| 7 | Philip went close to the glass door , standing between his Mum and it . |
| 8 | Timidly , she went close to the bed and when the invalid stretched out her hand she took it gratefully and sat beside her . |
| 9 | Cambridge dominated after the interval , but Millwall went close to an equaliser in the 63rd minute when Etienne Verveer headed against the foot of the post . |
| 10 | North responded and both Colin Christie and winger David McClelland went close to the vital breakthrough . |
| 11 | I went close to the body . |
| 12 | Skipper Brian Robson , Lee Sharpe , Giggs , and Gary Pallister , all went close to an equaliser but United 's two best chances fell to the mercurial Cantona . |
| 13 | Mark Hughes slotted in comfortably at centre-back , although he picked up a booking and went close to receiving a red card . |
| 14 | But it was Bishops Cleve who went close to scoring on the half an hour as Cliff Powell on his debut ran through , his shot was parried by Paul Whittington in the Milton goal , and the Milton defence cleared the ball from the danger area as Mark Gill was on hand for Bishops to pounce on any mistakes made . |
| 15 | Tommy Dempsey went close to the visitors just four minutes before half time , but both teams welcomed the referee 's whistle to end the first half . |
| 16 | None of the supply routes go close to the point where Sunderby 's aircraft ditched . |