Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] close to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even so close to shore , the sea is full of the souls of the drowned . |
| 4 | A sense of perspective can also be undermined in the other direction — is not pride in performance sometimes dangerously close to obsession ? |
| 5 | Tried moving to right but then too close to frame . |