Example sentences of "[verb] close to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a memorable flight because the wings iced over , forcing the pilot to dive , and left Lord Aldington feeling that ‘ we came close to death ’ . |
| 2 | He remained with Vivienne , the bank , and years of exhaustion in which he came close to death . |
| 3 | A SURGEON told yesterday how stabbed policewoman Leslie Harrison came close to death as his team battled to save her . |
| 4 | He came close to death and is still trying to come to terms with the attack . |
| 5 | You did n't have to go in for banging drums and shaking rattles to be a shaman ; you had simply to have suffered tremendously , been torn apart , come close to death . |