Example sentences of "close [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this is the same idea and if there 's a star Something that I did see a wee while ago , I saw a f a light very close down to the horizon and I said I 've never seen a star so bright way down there . |
| 2 | The British player , standing close in on the net , chose to leave Emmons ' shot , which dropped comfortably inside the baseline . |
| 3 | I then subsequently asked for an iris to be put into the Dalek so that we could do a close up of the eye irising in and out to get the effect of its eye focussing on you . |
| 4 | Er I would say , about eighteen to twenty close up to the top . |
| 5 | The offshore industry has tended towards this cloning form , although Press on Tyneside is close up to the boundary with locationally concentrated structure . |
| 6 | Duvall joined him and began to shove hard , until the cabinet had juddered close up to the office door . |
| 7 | West 45th Street , in Manhattan , said he had not seen so many people intent on a show since the Mets had played the Houston Astros in the sixth game of the playoff for the National League pennant , and even then they had not stood so close up to the screen . |
| 8 | They were close up to the car when the brown-haired man of average build left his car and Ven Gajdusek halted to exchange a few words in Czech with him . |
| 9 | But if one takes only one kilometre , again there is insufficient room for a settlement which would not be close up against the greenbelt boundary proposed by the County Council , and close up against the A sixty four . |
| 10 | Philip crawled in after him and they sat close up against the side . |
| 11 | But because there are only modest hills to the north of it , and nothing too high close by on the south , Oloron is an open , not a mountain town . |
| 12 | All the time , the gun was in his hand or close by on the floor . |
| 13 | A number of people close by on the summit were busy like me holding the wall up with their backs and their morale up with cheese and onion doorsteps . |
| 14 | While Frank was ‘ climbing , fighting , playing , & robbing orchards ’ , Coleridge was more likely to be found in the meadows by the River Otter — first of those rivers , brooks and springs that were to work so powerfully on his mind — or close by at the sandstone cavern known as Pixies ' Parlour , where with the ‘ hand of … childhood ’ he carved his initials in the rock . |
| 15 | There was n't a sound , yet she was convinced that close by in the darkness someone lay in wait . |