Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] close " in BNC.
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| 1 | She drew me close and comforted me as I mourned my child and the bond between us had never been stronger . |
| 2 | However , he continued to hold her hand on the walk back to the main track , where he again drew her close to his side while taking her arm . |
| 3 | As he drew her close to him , she let herself fall against him . |
| 4 | His voice dropped to a low note of affection as he slid an arm around her shoulders and drew her close to his side . |
| 5 | He drew her close again and they fell silent , Rachel reflecting on how hard it must have been for David not to have told her what had really happened between himself and her sister , then another thought struck her . |
| 6 | Sinking back down , he drew her close again . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , now , it 's not been as bad as that , ’ he said , shamefaced , and laid his arm awkwardly round her shoulders and drew her close to him . |
| 8 | Hari held out her arms and drew him close . |
| 9 | He grabbed the poor creature by the neck and drew him close , then gazed savagely across at us . |
| 10 | He guided her , pressed her close . |
| 11 | They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted … |
| 12 | She danced in a haze of misery , scarcely noticing when the music changed from vibrant rock-and-roll to ‘ the creep ’ and when the lights were lowered and he pulled her close she could n't be bothered to protest though she was revolted by the smell of beer on his breath ( where had he got it ? ) mingling with strong body odours . |
| 13 | He put his arm around Christina 's waist , and pulled her close to him . |
| 14 | He sat up , looking at her , astonished by her behaviour , then laughed and pulled her close again , kissing her . |
| 15 | Fergus pulled her close again . |
| 16 | He pulled her close again . |
| 17 | She drew away , but he pulled her close again . |
| 18 | Piers pulled her close to him . |
| 19 | Roman pulled her close to his side as he thanked the man , tipping him lavishly . |
| 20 | He laughed and pulled her close to him . |
| 21 | Before she could answer he pulled her close again and any thoughts of answering fled as she gave herself up to the excitement . |
| 22 | Robyn asked as he pulled her close to him once again . |
| 23 | Finally , she grabbed hold of the dispenser 's cooling fin whilst it was waving a krill doughnut around in a vain attempt to attract custom , pulled it close and , in a casual and unremarkable manner , moved her hand down to the dispenser 's access plate and ran her fingers around the seam until she felt a magnetic bolt buzzing beneath her fingers . |
| 24 | He made her close her eyes , rest for a while , her head pillowed on his shoulder . |
| 25 | She opened the book , but the susurration of the river , the birdsong , and the distant hum of voices , made her close her eyes . |
| 26 | She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind . |
| 27 | He hugged her close to him , pressing his hands down her body , his own rampant masculinity hunting blatantly against her yielding female flesh . |
| 28 | I made him close to forty years old and that meant the stubby Mauser he was holding was in good hands . |
| 29 | The Prior had opened his mouth to state that , in his opinion , Robert of Gloucester was unlikely to throw casually aside his loyalty to his half-sister , no matter what councils he might have attended , but this statement made him close his lips on the words . |
| 30 | Never again , except in the nostalgic hopefulness of a few — would the ceremonies be performed ; gone were the offerings , the blood-shedding , the fire and incense , the gorgeous ( and the plain ) robes , and the rest of the sacred imagery which ‘ fenced-off ’ God 's otherness from the people — and brought them close to him in awe and penitence . |