Example sentences of "[vb pp] close to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only group to have come close to this sort of vetting of its members is the charity Action for Victims of Medical Accidents ( AVMA ) . |
| 2 | If the dykers can be encouraged to begin to build an extension to the west of the present entrance off Avenue Q , their small tent can also be relocated close to this section . |
| 3 | Compatibility : They are not particularly aggressive corals , and so can be placed close to each other and to other non-aggressive coelenterates such as zoanthids , Xenia pulse corals , bushy soft corals ( Simularia ) and gorgonians . |
| 4 | Thus , language and literature , medicine and physiology , and botany and agriculture could conveniently be placed close to each other . |
| 5 | The crowds who had jostled close to each other all day , shoulder to ruthless shoulder , thigh to strange thigh , had left their unexpungeable smell . |
| 6 | I had been brought close to another sort of despair by my inability to draw blood : a cat with no claws and ineffectual teeth . |
| 7 | Apparently , whenever she 'd gone close to this man he 'd shooed her away , recoiling from her and muttering , ‘ Pork , pork , pork , VD , VD , white woman , white woman . ’ |