Example sentences of "[adv prt] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tow pilot can help by allowing his aircraft to climb away , gaining speed rather than holding it down close to the ground . |
| 2 | Ali bent down close to his ear and whispered : ‘ You in pain ? ’ |
| 3 | Philip , crouched behind one of the big beeches that grew right down close to the pool , watched the boy for his reaction . |
| 4 | Carrying it over , she placed it on Tweed 's desk , switched it on , found a music programme , kept it on low volume and sat down close to Newman . |
| 5 | Make the request standing close to the child ; with a young child get down close to the height of the little one . |
| 6 | The survey added greatly to our knowledge of the glacial deposits , which were laid down close to the southern limit of ice advance during the Anglian Stage . |
| 7 | I drained one of the small glasses and set it down close to the wall on the floor . |
| 8 | When they reached the dunes , Carla sat down close to where Tom Carey normally sat . |
| 9 | Sarah collected some mugs from a cupboard and set them down close to the coffee maker ; she looked impatiently at the level of coffee in the jug , as if the slowness of the process was a familiar annoyance . |
| 10 | He laid the thin little thing down close to the blazing fire , and he moved to the table and poured milk and wine into a cup , and sliced bread and meat . |
| 11 | We taxied in close to the runway and were all pushed down the exit ladder to make a sprint for the terminal building ; no automatic concertinaed walkways here . |
| 12 | She cuddled in close to him as they tore along the highway . |
| 13 | Sit on the floor with one leg outstretched and the other bent at the knee and tucked in close to your thigh . |
| 14 | However , the newsletter , which figures the chip will start life at 50MHz , reckons that performance will come in close to the R4000 . |
| 15 | The session was short , the smile fading from the face of the accused as Mrs Balanchine described in detail how the car had come storming around a blind corner and swung in close to the wall where they were waiting to cross . |
| 16 | Colin Wilkinson took the ball on the burst and brought play to within ten metres of the home line where Colin Morrison fed the three quarters for Maurice Field to go in close to touch . |
| 17 | Back in the Jaguar with Olwen , they motored north up the M6 , turning off close to Lancaster to make their way up a private road to a grey stone castle at the top of the hill , overlooking the beautiful valley of the River Lune . |
| 18 | They come down on to the ground and immediately their wings break off close to the thorax . |
| 19 | Once , banks cuddled up close to industrial firms . |
| 20 | ‘ I mean , d' you think he got back from the mission he was on , ’ said Lee , putting his face right up close to the picture . |
| 21 | I grew up close to my godmother so as a child I was inoculated with the theatre . |
| 22 | The first thing Carlie did when she got to the foster home was pull the plastic footrest up close to the TV : ‘ Do n't talk to me when ‘ Young and Restless ’ is on , ’ she warned the foster mother who was standing behind her . |
| 23 | Maggie pulled a chair up close to the fire . |
| 24 | That 's why they built the cemetery up close to the workhouse , so they could take them over on a barrow . |
| 25 | There were people , people everywhere — huddled inside doorways trying to keep dry , crowding into the small , old-fashioned shops , and buying fruit and vegetables at bargain prices from the swarthy hawkers whose barrows were drawn up close to the kerb . |
| 26 | Suddenly he swung up close to my port side , waggling his wings frantically and pointing downwards . |
| 27 | The coffee table had taken flight to one side of the room , and two chairs had been drawn up close to the fireplace with their backs to the chesterfield . |
| 28 | Masklin pulled the Thing up close to his face . |
| 29 | They ended up close to the Embassy in a road called South Audley Street . |
| 30 | The detachment forms up close to the main unit where it can offer support , either by using long range weapons such as bows or hand guns , or by employing hand-to-hand weapons to threaten an advancing enemy 's exposed flanks . |