Example sentences of "[adv] close to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No X-ray had been flashed up on the screen with a football-sized tumour for me to stare at , and my surgeon was playing his cards so close to his chest there was some doubt somewhere . |
| 2 | Even so , the hissing flare passed so close to his face in its fiery trajectory , it scorched his left cheek . |
| 3 | His reddish-blond hair , slightly faded , evidently not clipped , was a little longer but still close to his head , already curling , giving him perhaps the youthful or angelic look of persons in Italian Renaissance paintings . |
| 4 | He put the plastic bag on top of the battery , always close to his hand . |
| 5 | It was a strange situation , which must have made a lasting impression on Richard , who was more than usually close to his mother . |
| 6 | This border town , captured by Gloucester and clearly close to his heart , was reckoned by the exchequer to cost £700 a month in defence — a charge which brought relatively little by way of increased security in return . |
| 7 | This border town , captured by Gloucester and clearly close to his heart , was reckoned by the exchequer to cost £700 a month in defence — a charge which brought relatively little by way of increased security in return . |
| 8 | But Blackburn boss Kenny Dalglish was keeping his cards traditionally close to his chest about Shearer , who is expected to challenge for an England place against Holland in Rotterdam next month . |
| 9 | But Blackburn boss Kenny Dalglish was keeping his cards traditionally close to his chest about Shearer , who is expected to challenge for an England place against Holland in Rotterdam next month . |
| 10 | He himself had other plans , although for the moment he was keeping them fairly close to his chest . |
| 11 | You tie one length round Mr Azul 's upper right arm , as close to his armpit as possible , over his silk shirt ; you kneel on the bed and haul with all your might and the rope bites deep into the sheen of the pale silk shirt ; Mr Azul cries out behind his gag ; a strangled , anguished shriek . |
| 12 | I knelt beside him and put my mouth as close to his ear as my nostrils would allow . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's an S in it ! ’ said Quigley , who was still keeping his cards pretty close to his chest . |
| 14 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |
| 15 | ‘ Too close to his head . |