Example sentences of "have never been close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana has never been close to the Princess Royal , and demonstrated that she now has no intention of pretending otherwise . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was a family man and , despite being a native New Yorker , he had never been closer to real violence in his whole life than on the TV. screen of his comfortable suburban house in Richmond . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had never been close to one before , and it was very big . |
| 6 | As a result of improved communications in every sense — be they electronic communications , our airports or any other form of communication — the regions of this country have never been closer to London than they are today . |