Example sentences of "[prep] something close to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a miserable business pining for those who had gone and she thought back with something close to horror of the unhappiness she had endured while wishing herself elsewhere . |
| 2 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind . |
| 3 | He glares at Eva with something close to hatred . |
| 4 | The young man glared at Harry with something close to resentment . |
| 5 | It was a measure of the strains of the day , or perhaps of the relief at finding the sympathetic Theodora , that the Archdeacon was precipitated into something close to indiscretion . |