Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | ( Roughly , this involves averaging the usual periodogram in log-log space , giving unbiased independent estimates of known variance , and with distributions close to gaussian . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Good ! ’ breathed Owen soundlessly into Cynan 's ear , in the bushes close to the path . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With gunnels close to the water , much shouting and sharp warnings to sit still , Hussa and I dragged the boat back home . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When reconnaissance shows that there is a large herd of elephants with young calves close to camp it is often decided to try to capture some of the young elephants first by means of mela shikar . |
| 13 | The Soviet government has responded to Finnish concerns by agreeing to take steps to cut sulphur emissions from two major mining and metalwork complexes close to the Finnish frontier . |
| 14 | ‘ I told you we 'd make it , ’ he said , lips close to her ear . |
| 15 | Lips close to her ear , he said , ‘ I 'm sorry , but I have to try it . ’ |
| 16 | Bodie put his lips close to Doyle 's ear . |
| 17 | ‘ The Women have come , ’ Fand whispered , lips close to her ear . |
| 18 | Over the sea bass , Angus leaned across the white linen tablecloth , his lips close to her ear . |
| 19 | In a lull of comparative quiet in the wind-driven roar of the rain , Hoc leaned towards his elder brother and put his lips close to his ear . |
| 20 | Bending , he put his lips close to her ear and added in a threatening whisper , ‘ Or join you . |
| 21 | If it is wrong to advertise cigarettes in some media ( e.g. , TV ) or in some places ( e.g. , in sight of schools ) , why is it acceptable to advertise them in other media ( e.g. , in the TV Times ) and other places ( e.g. , on the fronts of shops close to but not visible from schools ) ? |
| 22 | ‘ Was it nice ? ’ he said , his dark eyes close to hers . |
| 23 | The possibility of earthlike planets was considered , and he envisaged illustrious extraterrestrials close to the sun . |
| 24 | These are selected because they have characteristics close to early social group work practice : the operationalization of values ; and a detailed method of enquiry . |
| 25 | One Home has had great success with an art therapist who came over to take classes , combining residents from a number of Homes close to each other . |
| 26 | There are no homes close to the area where the body was found , but workers in the docks area expect to be questioned by police . |
| 27 | For a wide range of models of release ( but not all ) , trajectories as steep as or steeper than the diagonal in these plots indicate a change in the number of quanta released , whereas trajectories close to the horizontal indicate a change in postsynaptic responsiveness . |
| 28 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 29 | For typed input this can mean knowing the layout of the keyboard , because keys close to each other are more likely to have been substituted , inserted or transposed . |
| 30 | Brinson could cope with the work only because he was at the Foundation , where people could see him , which had concerns close to those of the CNAA , and which allowed him time to take part . |