Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The ultimate rock guitarist for me is Hendrix — for me , no-one else has ever come close to what he did . |
| 2 | A crystallisation of hundreds of currents , from Gaelic lyricism , personal reminiscence , folk , pop , soul , Dylan , emotion , pain , salvation and the best string arrangements of all time , ‘ Astral Weeks ’ still sounds like nothing else ever recorded ; it is a unique album whose experiments and innovations have often been imitated ( those who have tried , like Mike Scott , how had a plough through ‘ Sweet Thing ’ , have made appalling fools of themselves ) but no-one — not even Van — has ever come close to its achievements . |
| 3 | A number of programs followed rapidly in PageMaker 's footprints but none of those launched for the Macintosh has ever come close to either challenging PageMaker 's lead or to matching its intuitive user interface . |
| 4 | It is not a fantasy to say that Nancy has now come close to being a myth , and with a fiction writer that is exceedingly dangerous , for sometimes I ask myself , did Nancy ever exist ? |
| 5 | But Ferreira , who had not come close to breaking the sixth seed , suddenly discovered his best form , hitting three glorious forehands , including one to save match point , and capturing the game when Stich hit a backhand volley out . |
| 6 | The Kenyan-born allrounder had once come close to playing for England . |
| 7 | She had met no one she had even come close to loving . |
| 8 | The council 's own cleaning workers won the schools ' cleaning contracts for Hartlepool , Stockton and Langbaurgh and have not come close to having their future considered . |
| 9 | John the former Manchester City manager is there , a former manager of Shrewsbury as well , he 's with Alan and Blackburn have just gone close to going two one up . |
| 10 | We have n't got close to the matter yet , we are n't really working at it . ’ |
| 11 | The sale will strengthen Standard 's balance sheet and improve its capital ratios , which have recently sunk close to limits set by the Bank of England . |