Example sentences of "[v-ing] close to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine . |
| 2 | They left sticking close to their father and chatting happily to the crowds . |
| 3 | As the wood is an 8,000-year-old oak wood only eight miles from the centre of London on a site of special scientific interest , could not the Department have done more to insist that the important new road going close to my constituency was cut-and-cover ? |
| 4 | Wally I think you 're gon na need to wind up , you 're getting close to your time . |
| 5 | He did n't want to push her away , but he was getting close to his limit ; his blood was starting to pound in his ears and he was seeing haloes around all of the lights outside . |
| 6 | Rebecque , staying close to his master , gravely inspected one of the cannon almost as if he had never seen such an object before , then , suddenly afflicted by hay fever , he sneezed . |
| 7 | ‘ The knack , ’ the deep voice was saying close to her ear , ‘ is to stop pouring when the glass is full , Miss Hastings . ’ |
| 8 | peers inscrutably at the neatly fanned playing cards he is clutching close to his chest . |