Example sentences of "too close [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was weighted with a large wooden tag charred at the end where Father Barnes had put it down too close to a gas flame . |
| 2 | His neat , Astaire-like side-step to the road where he would rather die under a shining new Merc than to have to go too close to a cripple . |
| 3 | That approach was also rejected , because it was getting too close to a rating system , but it would have had some logic , a factor that is entirely outwith the system with which we are now confronted . |
| 4 | ‘ You know , Anne , you can get too close to a problem and not see it properly . |
| 5 | It is pitiful to see the agony of a naïve dog that has nosed up too close to a skunk and been sprayed in the face . |
| 6 | I think your lombardoi is abrading her upper lip on something — possibly through digging too close to a rock , so that her upper lip gets rubbed . |
| 7 | And do n't site it too close to a house wall , or you will get sooty stains — unless you build some form of screening . |
| 8 | In Germany , this spirit often takes the form of a ‘ bergmonck ’ or huge , pale monk who wards off travellers venturing too close to a mine rich with lodes of gold . |