Example sentences of "[adv] close to [art] " 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 | Philip , crouched behind one of the big beeches that grew right down close to the pool , watched the boy for his reaction . |
| 3 | Make the request standing close to the child ; with a young child get down close to the height of the little one . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I drained one of the small glasses and set it down close to the wall on the floor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Tie cords together close to the outer screw-eye . |
| 9 | Perhaps , while consistently maintaining its unique character , Apple has at last moved the Macintosh sufficiently close to the PC that corporates are now prepared to take the ‘ toy ’ very seriously indeed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , the newsletter , which figures the chip will start life at 50MHz , reckons that performance will come in close to the R4000 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sources extremely close to the development of IBM Corp 's network repository claim that its is close to production status and an IBM announcement is imminent . |
| 14 | I crossed the field , keeping extremely close to the top wall ready to jump over it if two tons of Fray Bentos came visiting , but there was no sign of either bull or cattle . |
| 15 | This reportedly began only on Jan. 20 , but only close to the Israeli border in the West Bank , and was limited to those aged over 15 . |
| 16 | I mean , can you think of any other situation , Pop , when a man gets so close to a woman except when he 's actually making love to her ? ’ |
| 17 | Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match . |
| 18 | Although Palmer 's theory of the physics of colour was mistaken ( he held there were three discrete forms of light ) , it is remarkable that this entrepreneur and tradesman came so close to a modern account of the physiology of colour vision . |
| 19 | No outlaw would lurk so near a royal palace or so close to a powerful priory . ’ |
| 20 | The right hon. Gentleman did not provide time for such a debate because he did not want to embarrass the Tory party so close to a general election . |
| 21 | Polite win for Pompey FOOTBALL : Portsmouth , who went so close to a promotion and Wembley double , have finished the season with a trophy after all . |
| 22 | In this sense it was Maxse 's radical Conservatism and not his more dangerous notions that brought him so close to the hub of Conservative politics in the decade before 1914 . |
| 23 | This is because the former faces lack either a sunny aspect or a pleasant prospect and the preservation of privacy is an important consideration on elevations so close to the highway . |
| 24 | Women leave , afraid to bear children in a city so close to the reactor . |
| 25 | Philip , pressed so close to the tree he could feel the knobbles in the bark , watched him . |
| 26 | The luckless eight-year-old hit the fence so close to the ground that at least a somersault was inevitable . |
| 27 | Mention Chiswick House today and everyone will think of the neo-Palladian Villa set in wonderful parkland , now all controlled by English Heritage , and famous as one of the finest examples of its kind in Britain , yet so close to the centre of London and with other interesting places close by . |
| 28 | Did they have to have so tight-packed an audience , with the front row so close to the dais on which he was sitting that he could positively feel their stupid gawping eyes on him ? |
| 29 | Realizing the extent of the betrayal , it was clear to both of them that they could not hang around so close to the target area hoping for survivors . |
| 30 | I may not even hook a fish , for the disturbance of retrieving a float through such shallow water , so close to the fish , would be sure to scare them . |