Example sentences of "[to-vb] close to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Other day-to-day situations that may not be attributed to visual difficulties include the extended time the children may need to complete tasks , their need to come close to the blackboard or to demonstrations , and their apparent clumsiness in certain practical activities and sports such as ball games . |
| 2 | The celebration of Artai 's Khanate having properly commenced , the common people were anxious to come close to the path of their newly enthroned lord through their city . |
| 3 | Krill eggs , 5–6 mm in diameter , are laid near the surface and sink to depths of over 1500 m ; the first few larval stages ( nauplii and metanauplii ) develop at even greater depths before the young krill rise to feed close to the surface . |
| 4 | ‘ You really do like to sail close to the wind , do n't you ? |
| 5 | I was born a reject , in the gutter ; was bred in the gutter ; and had learnt , very early on in life , to walk close to the gutter . |
| 6 | The darkness beneath the cover encourages the worms to tunnel close to the inside of the glass so that you will be able to see them clearly in their burrows . |
| 7 | Like Morrissey in 1977 , many in Manchester felt left behind and even fairly close friends found it difficult to gat close to the band . |
| 8 | Brother Cadfael waited his opportunity to draw close to the abbot 's shoulder as he left the choir . |
| 9 | The problem in the doctors ' surgery , I mean you 've got people taking ill sick children round there with high temperatures and , and they do tend want to park close to the surgery , er and if they see a space they will obviously use it . |
| 10 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
| 11 | In my message I told them that I was going to fly close to the control tower to see if they could tell me what was wrong with my port wheel , but again no reply from control . |
| 12 | Notice how the compact legs are enabling the body to keep close to the board . |
| 13 | Jess ignored the protest and pushed on , managing to keep close to the wall and surfacing not two feet from the doors . |
| 14 | She made her way across the room to where her father was , still with Urquhart following ; evidently there was no need to keep close to the stepmother with the rest ; it looked as if Kate knew her own mind . |
| 15 | It 's important to tap along each join to keep close to the glass . |
| 16 | Except for a Japanese joint venture , Russell 's group does not manufacture in the Far East , and sales there can come from either US or European production , but generally Morton prefers to manufacture close to the customer for improved service and to reduce tariff costs . |
| 17 | Remote control releases you from the need to stay close to the video machine in order to operate the controls . |
| 18 | The philosophy in Spain is to stay close to the family . |
| 19 | But in my opinion the best way to recover your memory is to stay close to the place where you lost it . ’ |
| 20 | So the piano was nearly always an upright , which was also easier to get close to the horn . |
| 21 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 22 | When Ransome-Wallis visited South Africa during the war , he allowed his desire to get close to the steam engine to overwhelm his awareness of South African racial niceties . |
| 23 | As with the Yashica and Minolta AF-SP , the 35mm lens means you have to get close to the action if your photos are to have real impact . |
| 24 | Humberside has a big concentration of chemical and food industries and this is an attempt to get close to the market . |
| 25 | ‘ When I first took over , it was difficult to get close to the lad . |