Example sentences of "[adv] close to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drained one of the small glasses and set it down close to the wall on the floor . |
| 2 | Philip , crouched behind one of the big beeches that grew right down close to the pool , watched the boy for his reaction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Make the request standing close to the child ; with a young child get down close to the height of the little one . |
| 5 | The tow pilot can help by allowing his aircraft to climb away , gaining speed rather than holding it down close to the ground . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In and poised for his latest triumph — a political satire so close to the heart of American electioneering that pundits believe it could affect the outcome of the presidential election . |
| 14 | It is also the place for those who want to soak up the sun on their hotel terraces or at the Lido , a huge pool so close to the sea that waves frequently wash into it . |
| 15 | It would have been impossible to consider that the captain in his white tights and blue tunic with all the gold braid in this story of piracy at sea had spent his infancy so close to the Caledonian Road . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ It took skill to manoeuvre the vessel so close to the shore and the girl , ’ said Inspector Peter Steenhuis , of Thames River Police . |
| 18 | Eventually , after two or three weeks , he has moved so close to the females that he virtually touches them . |
| 19 | Gavin Graham , a director of Belfast stockbrokers BWD Rensburg , said he was surprised that NIE had decided to ‘ squeeze in ’ its long-awaited flotation so close to the BT issue . |
| 20 | Belfast stockbroker Gavin Graham , of BWD Rensburg , said he was surpised that NIE had decided to ‘ squeeze in ’ its long-awaited flotation so close to the BT issue . |
| 21 | It came again as James slipstreamed Jody at the chicane , ever so close to the edge of real peril , and pulled away from the start line . |
| 22 | Just above the spot where Carey had stood to fish was a spread of broom , so close to the edge that it seemed to be rooted in granite . |
| 23 | After the ceremony there was a reception at the bride 's home Malmesbury House , which is a most attractive house and so close to the Cathedral that guests could walk there easily . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | His 47-year-old father , also called David , said : ‘ It is tragic that he died so close to the birth of his first child . |
| 27 | He did not like the fact that his potential assassins had got so close to the Hotel where he was staying . |
| 28 | Astronomers made strenuous efforts to observe Vulcan , generally attributing their lack of success to the fact that a small body so close to the Sun would be incredibly difficult to detect . |
| 29 | And its hoped this will reveal exactly why the plane crashed so close to the airport . |
| 30 | Contemporary with the alterations to the main east-west road , at least one or perhaps two possible public buildings were constructed immediately to the south on Sites 1 and 2 , each with a frontage carried on four columns and set so close to the road that the new roadside drains had to be diverted . |