Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] be [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course she was very close to Paula , I understand . |
| 2 | By the time they got to the top she was dangerously close to tears . |
| 3 | In Ajdabiya , in the lineage with two shaikhs , each organized levies ( collected from his supporters ) and paid money to members of the whole lineage , regardless of which shaikh they were genealogically closer to . |
| 4 | By the time I had loaded the camera we were already close to the reefs that formed the Devil 's Necklace . |
| 5 | Now this was a family I was very close to eventually when they became quite near neighbours in later years by moving to Clove Lodge , just up the pasture from Low Birk Hatt . |
| 6 | From the security point of view it was uncomfortably close to the road , and had a public footpath ( which has since been re-routed ) running across the garden , no more than two or three hundred yards from the house , but the Prince liked it . |