Example sentences of "have [adv] be [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't consciously try to get close to the original sound , but I think my style has always been fairly close to Eric 's anyway , plus I generally use a Strat in the studio . |
| 2 | He has visited Britain several times but he has never been even close to being caught and I am pleased about that . |
| 3 | Werewolf stayed upright , but then he 'd never been as close to him as I had . |
| 4 | You 've always been very close to them — in fact , it 's one of the things I envied about you . |
| 5 | No , we 've never been very close to the now . |
| 6 | She had never been so close to a young man before . |
| 7 | He had never been this close to him before , though of course he had seen him from a distance on parade , the short , brisk figure in green and white , dwarfed by the forest of cocked hats around , yet somehow contriving to dominate them all . |
| 8 | The fact that Lili seemed to take an interest in me led me to think that she had never been very close to my mother . |
| 9 | If that really is the way the authorities are now thinking — and ‘ readers ’ letters ' have long been notoriously close to official thinking in East Germany — then the government could find it is courting unprecedented disaster . |
| 10 | ‘ The major bankers have also been very close to goings on in the Bond Corporation for some time . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have never been so close to resigning from the force , ’ Morton said slowly . |