Example sentences of "came close [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moral reform , from the 1870s , came close to the centre of political debate — much more so than structural social reform ever did in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | A loose end , Kirov reminded himself as he came close to the man . |
| 3 | If she allowed herself to think of James at all tears came close to the surface , and she knew she would never feel the same with anyone else . |
| 4 | When the chimpanzees came close to the leopard , he activated its mechanism , so that it started to move its head . |
| 5 | A minority of Tories were prepared to concede that there could be exceptions to the theory of non-resistance in extremis , and in this they admittedly came close to the doctrine of some of the more conservative Whigs . |
| 6 | Crow-Harry circled , came close to the charcoal shard that was his sister , winked , then rose and was gone , flying to the south , to home , to warmth , to freedom . |
| 7 | And they came close to the wall of flint where Wynne-Jones waited , breathless with anticipation . |
| 8 | They swarmed round the town at night and came close to the tent in which I slept in the consulate compound . |
| 9 | He came close to the stranger and sniffed , as Hazel had done . |
| 10 | Through a string of three rooms they came close to the Ballroom ; only an ante-room divided them from it . |