Example sentences of "come close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only current captain David Platt and Chris Woods come close to Walker with 29 and 27 caps under the beleaguered English boss and the Wednesday goalkeeper has also suffered an alarming dip in form in the past few weeks . |
| 2 | Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God . |
| 3 | Only termites , leafcutter ants ( tribe Attini ) and some social bees ( the stingless melipones ) even come close to ants in their large-scale efforts to alter their environments and cycle materials through food webs . |
| 4 | Oystermen come close to victory |
| 5 | You did n't have to go in for banging drums and shaking rattles to be a shaman ; you had simply to have suffered tremendously , been torn apart , come close to death . |