Example sentences of "so close [adv] " in BNC.

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1 World View : So close yet still far apart : Timothy Garton Ash reflects on what it means when Germans start behaving like Poles , and Poles like Germans
2 She had burned from inside because she could n't get out of her mind the thought that Fernando was sleeping under the same roof , so close yet so far .
3 West 45th Street , in Manhattan , said he had not seen so many people intent on a show since the Mets had played the Houston Astros in the sixth game of the playoff for the National League pennant , and even then they had not stood so close up to the screen .
4 But their relationship had become so close over the last few months that even this advice did not see , all the 'surrealistic " to Sullivan .
5 Wonder wh well what 's that , you know , be a bang so close well it was n't till , till some time after we found out that they 'd stationed a naval gun somewhere Newtown way and they 'd f fired this gun to , as a practice .
6 Hamnett and Rosen became so close so quickly that May 's magazine was scrapped at the last minute in favour of a version reworked by Rosen .
7 We are so close so equal .
8 Surely fitzAlan had not held her so close yesterday ?
9 I have never seen one so close before , and it looks so bold , and bossy .
10 Well I du n no whether we whether you 'd sort of when you 're so close really .
11 [ they ] work so close together , yet they are , so to speak , utterly different in direction .
12 On that narrow bed we were so close together .
13 The poem we were working on was one of several left unfinished , but I can quote here the first three verses , for their expression of our condition at that time , our sense of being so close together that we were utterly apart from all else :
14 How is it that love and hate live so close together within one pulsing heart ?
15 It was always chilly at the school because the building was made of stone , rather like a castle , and was perched on the top-most peak of a mountain , surrounded by pine trees which grew so close together that it was very damp and gloomy .
16 ‘ Because the murders were committed so close together we are looking into possible links between the two . ’
17 The two fjords , so close together , could n't be more different .
18 For a long moment after the door had closed , Craig and Hari remained motionless , so close together that she could feel his breath against her cheek .
19 Sandy 's red Jaguar was parked behind a dense hedge , the twigs so close together they formed a visual barrier from a distance .
20 Also there are many binaries in which the components are so close together that no telescope will separate them , and they betray their true nature only by means of the spectroscope .
21 This is because the two components are so close together that they almost touch , and presumably gravitational strains mean that each is distorted into the shape of an egg .
22 It is yellowish , with a G-type spectrum , and is actually a close binary , though the components are so close together that no ordinary telescope will separate them .
23 It is actually a binary , but the two components are so close together that they can not be separated with ordinary telescopes .
24 There are some excellent villages , like Iholdy , where the church and the frontón are so close together they seem to be one building , and the church has an unusual , very charming wooden gallery attached to the side wall .
25 In those narrow streets , with houses so close together , and the dirty water running down the middle of the street , there was no escape .
26 Perhaps there had been a muddle because her birthday and her wedding date were so close together .
27 The thing which kept him in such a feverish state was the unmistakable message her brown eyes had sent him as they stood so close together outside her door .
28 At first they seemed so close together as to form an impassable barrier , but as they drew nearer it became clear that they were several yards apart .
29 The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same .
30 Metallic hydrogen is expected to be produced at very high pressures because the molecules of molecular hydrogen ( H 2 ) will be forced so close together that each of the two hydrogen atoms in the H 2 molecule is attracted to atoms in neighbouring molecules as much as to its partner .
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