Example sentences of "was a close [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So short a time , Charlotte realised with a shock , that he could not possibly have returned home in the meantime , since he was a close neighbour of the Bodens , who lived ten miles from Aurae Phiala . |
| 2 | Aged 59 , born in the Ile d'Oleron , Pierre Berge in his teens was a close friend of Jean Cocteau . |
| 3 | Cotton 's nephew William or ‘ son ’ as he called him ( for he had no children ) , was a close friend of Doctor Livingstone , who was brought to stay at Forest House in the 1860s . |
| 4 | The elder Noble daughter , Irene , was already launched on her own secretarial career and , at this time , was a close friend of the writer , Richard le Gallienne , a protegé of her father . |
| 5 | Lisa was a close friend of Tolstoy and Berdyaev but rejected their Christian ideas . |
| 6 | Brownlow , a Jersey tax exile whose father was a close friend of the Duke of Windsor , originally offered the Abdication papers to the Royal Archives . |
| 7 | She was a close friend of the Duchess of Portland and , when staying with her at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire , December 1753 , reported that Philip Miller had been working in the library and , On another occasion when they met , she commented on his reticence . |
| 8 | First , he was a close friend of Samuel Richardson who published the later volume . |
| 9 | It also came to light that Mrs Dyer was a close friend of another convicted baby farmer , Margaret Waters . |
| 10 | Under Josef II , all the libraries throughout Bohemia , with one or two exceptions , were closed , along with the monasteries , and the books were brought here , where the abbot , Václav Mayer , was a close friend of Josef 's . |
| 11 | Martin was a close friend of the family as well as his business partner and Varna had been happy for her to go with him . |
| 12 | I was a close friend of his parents , you know . |
| 13 | He then occupied a country living for a few years before returning to Winchester as chaplain to the Bishop , George Morley , who was a close friend of Izaak Walton . |
| 14 | Credit bookmaker Mr Meinertzhagen , who is divorced from Georgina 's mother , was a close friend of missing gambling peer Lord Lucan . |
| 15 | The Thorntons were kin of the Wilberforces ; Gisborne was a close friend of Wilberforce and married Babington 's sister while Babington himself married a sister of Zachary Macaulay . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , a member of the tournament committee heard this picturesque statement of Jack 's intentions — not difficult , you could probably have heard it twenty miles away at the PGA headquarters — and of course the stockbroker was a close friend of the sponsor . |
| 17 | Baker an urbane , Princeton-educated Texan was a close friend of Vice-President George Bush and had been Bush 's campaign manager during the 1980 primaries . |
| 18 | Duff Cooper , an improbable standard-bearer , for he had acclaimed the victory of the independent candidate in Paddington and his wife was a close friend of Beaverbrook , offered himself as a knightly substitute ; and Baldwin , who did not want to sever his connection with Bewdley , accepted gratefully . |
| 19 | Francis was a close friend of Jacqueline Hill 's husband , Producer/Director Alvin Rakoff , and had asked to be kept in mind for a part almost from Doctor Who 's beginning . |
| 20 | He was a close friend of Sir Thomas Fairfax ( later third Baron Fairfax of Cameron , q.v. ) and travelled in his entourage to London on 18 February 1645 when Fairfax went to take up his command of the New Model Army . |
| 21 | He was a close friend of Herbert Spencer [ q.v. ] and was one of his executors . |
| 22 | She was a close friend of H. G. Wells [ q.v. ] , with whom she also had a brief affair , and who , amongst others , encouraged her to write . |
| 23 | By 1672 he was a close friend of Robert Hooke [ q.v. ] , as the latter records in his diary ; the two men met frequently to discuss linguistic matters . |
| 24 | All the Duchamp brothers were at this time passionately interested in mathematics ; Jacques Villon was engaged in reading Leonardo 's Trattato della Pittura , while Marcel Duchamp was a close friend of an amateur mathematician named Maurice Princet , so that it is not surprising that they should have been responsible for introducing a more scientific note into Cubist discussions . |
| 25 | Since her fiancé was a close friend of one of the Private Eye writers , Alex shook her head . |
| 26 | I thought I was about to faint , and could pay no attention as my companion pointed out the Clervals , a wealthy merchant family , of whom Henry Clerval was a close friend of Victor 's ; Duvillard , a rich banker , and his new wife ; Louis Manoir ; and many other local notables . |
| 27 | Despite his background in Democratic Party politics , Strauss was a close friend of both Bush and Baker . |
| 28 | The abuse of Artemesia has continued till today because as recently as 1977 many of her paintings including Suzannah and the Elders had been attributed to her father ( a painter who was a close friend of Caravaggio since it was not uncommon for a male member of the family or tutor to take credit for any talent shown by a woman under their ’ guidance ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm told that Edwin Garland was a close friend of your late husband . ’ |
| 30 | Miss Barber told the court she had worked at Champion Spark Plugs for 16 years and was a close friend of Paula 's . |