Example sentences of "[noun] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can understand this is you can imagine yourself crouching with your knees close to your chest and balancing on your toes at the same time . |
| 2 | Sitting with her own bare legs close to a hairy , powerful-looking brown thigh , her fastidious gaze drawn to the flex and contraction of muscles as gears were changed , was n't precisely conducive to Virginia 's peace of mind , for some infuriating reason . |
| 3 | For customers wishing to leave their cars close to Gatwick airport Citalia has an agreement with BCP car parking . |
| 4 | The two terminals and the Fao tank farm were put out of action , depriving Iraq of the normal means of exporting the output of its southern oilfields close to Basrah . |
| 5 | Reflecting such thoughts , Mr Oleg Bogomolov , a reformer close to Mr Gorbachev , said in February , ’ If Hungary chooses to be a neutral state , then it will not be a threat just because of that . ’ |
| 6 | ( Roughly , this involves averaging the usual periodogram in log-log space , giving unbiased independent estimates of known variance , and with distributions close to gaussian . ) |
| 7 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 8 | Subcutaneous injections can be in the scruff of the neck close to the handler 's thumb while holding the mouse firmly on a surface that it can grasp . |
| 9 | With his precision of line , careful musicality and swift little steps close to the ground , Shaw , in ballets like Les Rendezvous , embodied everything that was best about Ashton 's choreography and which made the Royal Ballet unique . |
| 10 | He writes of ‘ the little town Portadown , with its comfortable unpretending houses , its squares and market-place , its pretty quay , with craft along the river , a steamer building in the dock close to mills and warehouses — a pleasant conclusion to this ten miles ' drive ( from Armagh ) . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Good ! ’ breathed Owen soundlessly into Cynan 's ear , in the bushes close to the path . |
| 12 | Most of the preclinical teaching is within the Royal ( Dick ) School at Summerhall close to the centre of the city . |
| 13 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 14 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 15 | It was well known how these sinister plasteel cadavers could house Stealer broods , adrift for centuries or millennia till a fluke of the warp vomited the derelict into truespace close to some vulnerable world . |
| 16 | The newly-bought axe was buried in deep undergrowth close to where the fire was lit . |
| 17 | At body weights close to the required minimum women may still have anovulatory cycles even if they are menstruating because of a lack of peripherally produced oestrogen in adipose tissue . |
| 18 | ‘ Middlesbrough is a club close to my heart . |
| 19 | With gunnels close to the water , much shouting and sharp warnings to sit still , Hussa and I dragged the boat back home . |
| 20 | Detective Superintendent Owen Taylor , who is leading the inquiry team , said yesterday that three people were spotted in an E-registration , black Nissan Micra car , near allotments close to the barracks at 8.15pm on 21 September , which was 12 hours before the bombing in which 10 bandsmen died . |
| 21 | I 'm a great believer in it , I , I park my car close to that and find it a most convenient way of travelling around . |
| 22 | They 're trying to trace two men seen in a car close to where the attack happened . |
| 23 | At the age of three , Carina ran in front of a car close to the family 's home in Winsford , suffering near fatal injuries . |
| 24 | In an attractive , sunny setting close to the centre of Westendorf , the Hotel Austria consists of two buildings . |
| 25 | The juxtaposition of a raised aqueduct close to the granary was not , one might think , a particularly sensible arrangement , as seepage from the aqueduct could well have made the granary , despite its raised floor , damper than was desirable . |
| 26 | Lakes close to the sea acquire minerals faster than those inland , from wind-blown spray and from seals , penguins , gulls and skuas , which like to wash in fresh water . |
| 27 | Unless you are forced to sail high by a boat close to leeward , come out of the start powered up and going fast . |
| 28 | In the same boat close to the bottom of Yorkshire Division plunged to a 20–6 defeat who played their best rugby of the season . |
| 29 | FRENCH PABX MAKER BARPHONE CLOSE TO BEING ACQUIRED |
| 30 | Christine put her mouth close to Anne 's ear . |