Example sentences of "went close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each side in turn went close to dispensing with extra time , Crown hitting a post then Paul Gascoigne having a chip turned on to the bar . |
| 2 | Beenhakker , in his more candid moments , went close to admitting that senior players were in charge at the Bernabeu . |
| 3 | Philip went close to the glass door , standing between his Mum and it . |
| 4 | Timidly , she went close to the bed and when the invalid stretched out her hand she took it gratefully and sat beside her . |
| 5 | Cambridge dominated after the interval , but Millwall went close to an equaliser in the 63rd minute when Etienne Verveer headed against the foot of the post . |
| 6 | North responded and both Colin Christie and winger David McClelland went close to the vital breakthrough . |
| 7 | I went close to the body . |
| 8 | Skipper Brian Robson , Lee Sharpe , Giggs , and Gary Pallister , all went close to an equaliser but United 's two best chances fell to the mercurial Cantona . |
| 9 | Mark Hughes slotted in comfortably at centre-back , although he picked up a booking and went close to receiving a red card . |
| 10 | But it was Bishops Cleve who went close to scoring on the half an hour as Cliff Powell on his debut ran through , his shot was parried by Paul Whittington in the Milton goal , and the Milton defence cleared the ball from the danger area as Mark Gill was on hand for Bishops to pounce on any mistakes made . |
| 11 | Tommy Dempsey went close to the visitors just four minutes before half time , but both teams welcomed the referee 's whistle to end the first half . |