Example sentences of "came close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the beginning , more than fifteen years ago , when she was much slimmer and wore flared trousers , she seemed to enter a magnetic field whenever she came close to Tom . |
| 2 | Kelly finished fourth overall , ousted from second place by Mottet and Wegmuller , and came close to losing the King of the Mountains honour . |
| 3 | It was a memorable flight because the wings iced over , forcing the pilot to dive , and left Lord Aldington feeling that ‘ we came close to death ’ . |
| 4 | She came close to threatening the Community with a repetition of de Gaulle 's policy of ‘ the empty chair ’ in the sixties . |
| 5 | In one terrifying episode , Mrs Thatcher and her ministers came close to being collectively murdered in the bombing of the Grand Hotel , Brighton , in October 1984 . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister came close to accusing the Chancellor of starting the inflationary spiral by an attempt to link the rate for sterling with the value of the German deutschmark . |
| 7 | He remained with Vivienne , the bank , and years of exhaustion in which he came close to death . |
| 8 | The most obvious expression of this was Maxse 's ‘ radical plutocracy ’ enquiry , launched in the wake of the Marconi scandal , when he came close to depicting the Asquith government as tools of a shadowy ‘ cosmopolitan finance ’ . |
| 9 | This theory came close to some of the central ideas which Marx had developed for capitalism . |
| 10 | Nothing his old man did in the rest of the trip came close to commanding such respect as falling asleep during that take-off . |
| 11 | In 1955 Shelby raced a works Austin-Healey in the Carrera Panamericana — and came close to assuming the title of the late Carroll Shelby when a huge accident destroyed his car and put him out of circulation for several months . |
| 12 | They were singing a folk-song , simple but moving , and Erika came close to tears . |
| 13 | Other MPs who came close to defeat were the Militant supporter Mr Pat Wall ( Bradford North ) , and Mr Ron Brown ( Leith ) , the left-winger who had the whip withdrawn for a month for dropping the Mace . |
| 14 | Officer ‘ came close to disobeying Cossack order ’ . |
| 15 | But by its actions and words on Tuesday , the Administration came close to admitting that its confidence in President Alfredo Cristiani 's ability to defeat the FMLN was ill-placed . |
| 16 | The Tayif agreement was supposed to be a formula for peace , but last week it came close to becoming a recipe for one of the biggest , almost certainly the most ferocious , battles of the 14 ½-year war . |
| 17 | Philip II of Spain came close to achieving it , before he was defeated by , among others , half naked English mercenary soldiers who ‘ for thieving and brawling had no equals ’ — the ancestors of the football fans who are plotting next year 's ‘ English invasion of Italy ’ . |
| 18 | Before that Gloucester , in an inspired spell , twice came close to equalising , through the lorry driver Steve Talboys , up at 5am so that he could play , and Townsend . |
| 19 | Last week Mr Cojuangco came close to getting back on the board of San Miguel , the country 's largest firm , which he once controlled . |
| 20 | Greg Thomas came close to a wicket three times in his first over in Test cricket , but Greenidge and Haynes survived to give their usual start before Greenidge had to retire with a cut forehead after mishooking Botham . |
| 21 | A second reason was closely related to this , namely an anthropocentrism which came close to asserting that man could do whatever he liked with creation . |
| 22 | So did Campbell , although he came close to it with his emphasis upon Christ as the perfect penitent who makes the perfect confession . |
| 23 | Jodie Riddell , owner of the very sweet Wolfer ( Sam 's ‘ girlfriend ’ ) , came close to losing her 18-month-old pet on a busy street — after they 'd moved to the hostel . |
| 24 | This had already been binned but I binned the offer as well , just in case I ever came close to considering it seriously . |
| 25 | Finally it came close to emulating Midland 's Crocker fiasco in America . |
| 26 | So , despite seeming to lose every argument , the CEGB probably came close to achieving its original goal . |
| 27 | An interesting sign of the times was the Ladies ' request in 1937 to have a bar-hatch cut into the lounge , at their expense , but despite Mrs. J. Chalcraft and Miss Lorna Simmons attending a main Committee to put the case , their request was lost 7–3 , although a referendum on the subject came close to being conducted . |
| 28 | Catherine came close to Morton and let her head droop on his shoulder . |
| 29 | If the stations of the Australian capitals did not reach the true gigantism of the last great wave of American stations or of Howrah and Tokyo , they came close to it . |
| 30 | Fleming went on to describe how the nasal secretions of the patient ( himself , in fact ) were cultured , and how a round microbe or coccus first grew and then was destroyed where it came close to the nasal secretion . |