Example sentences of "so close [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 This is because the two components are so close together that they almost touch , and presumably gravitational strains mean that each is distorted into the shape of an egg .
2 It is actually a binary , but the two components are so close together that they can not be separated with ordinary telescopes .
3 The huge drops were so close together that they reflected the light , and the rain billowed and rippled like a silver-white curtain .
4 From here he could see the crowded harbour quarter , the rooftops so close together that they welded in the heat haze into one whole .
5 Devlin 's hand swung up , he fired three rounds so close together that they might almost have been one .
6 The poem we were working on was one of several left unfinished , but I can quote here the first three verses , for their expression of our condition at that time , our sense of being so close together that we were utterly apart from all else :
7 For a long moment after the door had closed , Craig and Hari remained motionless , so close together that she could feel his breath against her cheek .
8 It was always chilly at the school because the building was made of stone , rather like a castle , and was perched on the top-most peak of a mountain , surrounded by pine trees which grew so close together that it was very damp and gloomy .
9 The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same .
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