Example sentences of "[noun] was near " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelveheads was near Wesley 's revival centre at Gwennap pit ; Bray 's grandfather had been one of his converts and had helped to build the Twelveheads chapel . |
| 2 | Benedict was near thirty , and yet his face and form had withstood the ravages of time and circumstance . |
| 3 | To avoid them I should either have had to go several hundred yards through dense undergrowth , or make a wide detour round and above them ; the former would have subjected me to very great danger , and there was no time for the latter , for the sun was near setting and I had still two miles to go . |
| 4 | The village was near the main road between Canterbury and Dover . |
| 5 | Sergeant Reynolds was near the end of his service , a stolid , broad-shouldered , slow-speaking officer of the old school and a native of the fens . |
| 6 | Yardarm Street was a turning off Commercial Road and the pub was near the Commercial Road corner . |
| 7 | As the depôt was near the ‘ Robin Hood ’ , in the mornings , one would often see drivers ' small children waiting with a blue enamelled jug of steaming tea and sandwiches in a red handkerchief , for their father 's breakfast . |
| 8 | John Pilkington 's home was near the duchy lordship of Wakefield and Ralph Snaith had close links with a leading duchy family , the Savilles of Thornhill . |
| 9 | Maybe it was a good thing I did n't see Darrowby ; Helen 's home was near the bus route and I dropped off well short of the town . |
| 10 | Hilda 's home was near the convent , and the tube train seemed to be boring a hole into the past , bearing her inexorably back to the source of her purest happiness and pain . |
| 11 | John Pilkington 's home was near the duchy lordship of Wakefield and Ralph Snaith had close links with a leading duchy family , the Savilles of Thornhill . |
| 12 | Apart from its prominence , Luxulyan was several miles from a river estuary , requiring both a long water pipeline and cooling towers , whilst Gwithian was near the tourist honeypot of St Ives . |
| 13 | In fact , the community was near the end of its financial tether . |
| 14 | Beneath it were a photograph of a beaming Ruby Dobby and a few hundred words about her having a psychic revelation that Sniffy Wilson was near London and trying to make contact with a friend . |
| 15 | She glanced at Conrad whose head was near the hatch where she was working and , sure enough , he had transferred his attention from her cat to the young man who had melted into the rocking-chair ; his expression was quieter , more thoughtful . |
| 16 | He drew her to him , so that her head was near his waist , in a stiff sort of way because she did not give in to the embrace . |
| 17 | She waited until the pressure outside the suit was near zero , checked that the pressure inside was normal , and used her right claw with surprising delicacy to tap in the instruction to open the hatch . |
| 18 | The goal was nt a direct result of his actions … the free kick was near the touchline and some 18 yrds from the dead ball line — something we still should have dealt with . |
| 19 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 20 | His name was near the beginning . |
| 21 | Joseph was near the easel . |
| 22 | Respect for their seniors was near the top of the list … however high or humble they might be . |
| 23 | Lachlan was near heaving the shipmaster overboard , but he knew he 'd been wrong . |
| 24 | He stopped her from going visiting in the town , and whenever Daniel Marsh was near Nahum became angry , taking it out on the poor , innocent man whose only role in life was to serve . |
| 25 | Lachlan was being left in charge of the castle , and Lady Marion could not go to the ceremony , for the baby was near its time . |
| 26 | The epicentre was near Bishops Castle in Shropshire , but the shaking was felt as far afield as the intensity 2 area . |
| 27 | We found hot springs to bathe in and waterfalls to admire but our first outdoors adventure was near Whangarei , where Mount Manaia rises very steeply and with spectacular jagged outcrops to about 1500 ft . |
| 28 | In our experiment , we controlled for intermale and interfemale competition by excluding responses when more than one bird was near the model , but because crest size is also correlated with dominance in both sexes and aggressive competition for mates is frequent ( I.L.J. , unpublished data ) , crest ornament size is likely to be favoured by intrasexual competition as well as by mating preference . |
| 29 | ‘ Writing letters was near impossible . |
| 30 | He went inland to Hufuf , where he was informed that Ibrahim was near Dara'iyyah , and decided to join a convoy that was going to his camp . |