Example sentences of "dangerously close [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |
| 2 | Packaged in a disturbingly brave grey sleeve ( depicting the rear regions of a naked angst ridden , shorn haired young man ) it verged dangerously close to Factory 's moderne Savilleion artwork . |
| 3 | I continued along a path over the bluffs following a waymarked nature trail , where the main animal life seemed to be a few pregnant sheep blowing about dangerously close to death on the rocks below . |
| 4 | In 1975 when Jock Stein was almost killed in a car crash , he lay in a Dumfries hospital dangerously close to death with a fractured skull . |
| 5 | A sense of perspective can also be undermined in the other direction — is not pride in performance sometimes dangerously close to obsession ? |