Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The face he leaned so confidentially close to Harry 's was glimmering with triumph and self-importance . |
| 2 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |
| 3 | And if the Soviet leader kept silent in Peking in May , as hundreds of thousands shouted his name during the demonstrations at Tiananmen , he seems the more likely to say nothing which might inflame passions so comparatively close to home . |
| 4 | Even so close to shore , the sea is full of the souls of the drowned . |
| 5 | I suppose it was a little thoughtless of me to allow my scalpel to flash and flicker quite so close to Rory O'Hagan 's fly buttons . |
| 6 | A sense of perspective can also be undermined in the other direction — is not pride in performance sometimes dangerously close to obsession ? |
| 7 | Almost too close to Madge Ramsey 's famous ; ‘ Say what you like , there 's nothing like a nice cup of tea . ’ |
| 8 | Tried moving to right but then too close to frame . |
| 9 | It is surely significant that at c.60 rpm for the 1793 machine 's flywheel , the tempo of the Haydn ‘ Clock ’ Symphony 's Menuetto Allegretto ( Czerny marks it Allegro ) is dotted minim = c.72 , certainly reasonably close to Czerny 's 76 for the same music . |