Example sentences of "[adv] close to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polite win for Pompey FOOTBALL : Portsmouth , who went so close to a promotion and Wembley double , have finished the season with a trophy after all . |
| 2 | I mean , can you think of any other situation , Pop , when a man gets so close to a woman except when he 's actually making love to her ? ’ |
| 3 | A few weeks after his escape from a film disaster , Dustin came shatteringly close to a disaster of a more fatal kind . |
| 4 | In fact it comes remarkably close to a conceptualisation of Susan Brownmiller 's famous assertion that ’ Rape is a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear . ’ |
| 5 | But since such progress is conceived as immanent to musical history itself , independent of variants of musical practice , social usage and reception , the theory moves dangerously close to a hypostasis of technique ; at the very least it confines the relationship between musical and social structures to the level of the longue durée , since at that level society is ‘ encapsulated ’ in music , while in between , music 's ‘ autonomous unfoldment … follows the social dynamics without a glance or any direct communication ’ ( ibid : 206–7 ) , still less putting itself at the service of particular social subjects . |
| 6 | When , in a voice that is neither , he sings ‘ My arms were sure and strong ’ , a glance at his thin arms and meagre frame brings you dangerously close to a belly-laugh . ’ |
| 7 | However , Mr Murdoch has come dangerously close to an edge over which other debt-happy Australian entrepreneurs have already tumbled . |
| 8 | If you have car trouble , try to get as close to a telephone as possible . |
| 9 | She says the Government has starved the health service , and now close to an election it comes up with money . |
| 10 | However , as usual when one is in opposition , particularly close to an election , one has to shout and scream trying to pretend that there is a big difference when there is not . |
| 11 | She shivered , uncomfortably close to an understanding . |
| 12 | There was no getting away from the fact that , as a unit , the Scotland back row were so disjointed as to be at times perilously close to a vacuum . |
| 13 | This was weighted with a large wooden tag charred at the end where Father Barnes had put it down too close to a gas flame . |
| 14 | His neat , Astaire-like side-step to the road where he would rather die under a shining new Merc than to have to go too close to a cripple . |
| 15 | That approach was also rejected , because it was getting too close to a rating system , but it would have had some logic , a factor that is entirely outwith the system with which we are now confronted . |
| 16 | ‘ You know , Anne , you can get too close to a problem and not see it properly . |
| 17 | It is pitiful to see the agony of a naïve dog that has nosed up too close to a skunk and been sprayed in the face . |
| 18 | I think your lombardoi is abrading her upper lip on something — possibly through digging too close to a rock , so that her upper lip gets rubbed . |
| 19 | And do n't site it too close to a house wall , or you will get sooty stains — unless you build some form of screening . |
| 20 | In Germany , this spirit often takes the form of a ‘ bergmonck ’ or huge , pale monk who wards off travellers venturing too close to a mine rich with lodes of gold . |