Example sentences of "come close [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come close to the mark in his various schemes for the inner cities , but he had always taken great care not to overstep the boundary . |
| 2 | A Lurgan solicitor who could speak menacing words in a slow quiet voice , he had come close to the leadership of the Unionist Party , had held cabinet office and retained good links with the paramilitaries and the workers ' leaders who had planned and organized the 1974 strike . |
| 3 | Despite experiences which have come close to destroying their lives , the three managed to appear remarkably cheerful as they faced the cameras in Moya 's elegant house . |
| 4 | However , in contrast to Nicaragua , where the economy has come close to collapse , in El Salvador both the additional costs of the war and increasing indebtedness have been counterbalanced by very large injections of aid from the United States . |
| 5 | It is not a fantasy to say that Nancy has now come close to being a myth , and with a fiction writer that is exceedingly dangerous , for sometimes I ask myself , did Nancy ever exist ? |
| 6 | The Baül poet is fully conscious that his value in the marketplace of the world is pitifully small ; that he is neither wealthy nor learned , yet he has this great compensation , for he has come close to his lover 's heart . |
| 7 | ‘ They have come close to finding them , then ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The ultimate rock guitarist for me is Hendrix — for me , no-one else has ever come close to what he did . |
| 9 | Barry Riley of the Financial Times writes that ‘ in the process of achieving great commercial success , accountants have come close to deprofessionalising themselves ’ . |
| 10 | The truth was that for four years Fittipaldi had come close to dominating motor racing in the way Jackie had before him : after two indifferent early years learning his trade , he had been champion twice ( in 1972 and 1974 ) and come second in 1973 and 1975 . |
| 11 | A crystallisation of hundreds of currents , from Gaelic lyricism , personal reminiscence , folk , pop , soul , Dylan , emotion , pain , salvation and the best string arrangements of all time , ‘ Astral Weeks ’ still sounds like nothing else ever recorded ; it is a unique album whose experiments and innovations have often been imitated ( those who have tried , like Mike Scott , how had a plough through ‘ Sweet Thing ’ , have made appalling fools of themselves ) but no-one — not even Van — has ever come close to its achievements . |
| 12 | The Kenyan-born allrounder had once come close to playing for England . |
| 13 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 14 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 15 | The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry II 's confidence in his son 's ability to rule Aquitaine . |
| 16 | Jack Delano believes that enriching the human spirit in some measure is the purpose of all art , and if any of his work has come close to doing that for anyone , then he and his wife , who sadly died in 1982 , would be more than satisfied . |
| 17 | We do not , of course , wish to gloat , having come close to liquidation many times ourselves , but it has to be said , WELL DONE , SIDCOMBE ! |
| 18 | A number of programs followed rapidly in PageMaker 's footprints but none of those launched for the Macintosh has ever come close to either challenging PageMaker 's lead or to matching its intuitive user interface . |
| 19 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 20 | Equally predictably , given the third party payment problem , the cost of those publicly funded has come close to running out of control . |
| 21 | In a way , she had come close to hating Nona at times , although she was not going to admit it . |
| 22 | For a moment Agnes thought he must have pulled a muscle , then giggled as she , and she alone , realised he had come close to spilling his holstered pistol . |
| 23 | Maxim touched the outside of his right thigh ; through the thin cotton trousers he could trace the hard-edged crater that had come close to killing him , out in the desert hours from real medical aid . |
| 24 | She had met no one she had even come close to loving . |
| 25 | I found the problems in Bolo 's Adventures part 2 just as hard if not harder , although I ca n't really tell because I have n't even come close to finishing part 1 . |
| 26 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 27 | The South Carolina election also saw the entry of former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke who had come close to winning the governorship of Louisiana in 1991 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | As er you 've not even come close to being involved in anything like it . |
| 30 | The memory was made more bitter still by the fact that she had come close to believing it . |