Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been close to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No woman has ever been closer to her husband than I am to Edward . |
| 2 | But Buckingham has always been close to her heart : she officially opened the university sixteen years ago and smiles upon its system of accelerated degrees and open access . |
| 3 | Fleur Adams had spoilt Dana in every way she could , to the exclusion of Claudia , who had always been closer to her father . |
| 4 | He had always been close to her . |
| 5 | But Jane had always been close to her mother and , almost inevitably , there came an evening when Mrs Connachan inadvertently prised open the floodgates . |
| 6 | But he had never been closer to it than the road and now , driving up to it , it struck him again that the description ‘ cottage ’ was hardly appropriate . |
| 7 | She had never been close to one before , and it was very big . |
| 8 | He had never been close to his son , Mark 's father , but had doted on his grandson and had often talked to him of the old Russia . |