Example sentences of "[noun sg] close to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco had his arm around his elder brother 's shoulder , his mouth close to his face , his other arm gesticulating gracefully , as if conducting an invisible band of players . |
| 2 | He moved stealthily to the bedroom , to the wardrobe close to his bed . |
| 3 | David Whitaker devised the balance of the four main characters , drawing , perhaps predictably , from the literature close to his heart . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All these disconnected thoughts were roaming through his mind as he drove through the middle of the night close to his flat in South Ken . |
| 6 | There was an explosion close to his head . |
| 7 | Gedanken came and sat on the floor close to his chair . |
| 8 | Grant half swayed , half fell to the inboard telephone , lifting the speaker close to his mouth . |
| 9 | Macijauskas undertook a planned tour of villages in 1968 and found a subject close to his heart . |
| 10 | His brother spoke in a quavering voice close to his ear as though he had read his thoughts . |
| 11 | It is also worth noting , however , that Gregory 's family was closely associated with Dijon , and that he may well have relished the prospect of a major cult close to his family estates . |
| 12 | Other songs : Include Stainsby Girls , inspired by a Middlesbrough school close to his heart . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 15 | I put a bullet close to his head and he dived for cover . |
| 16 | He was later seen with a cartridge belt , filled with cartridges , around his waist and with the barrels of the gun close to his head . |