Example sentences of "[vb past] so close " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamnett and Rosen became so close so quickly that May 's magazine was scrapped at the last minute in favour of a version reworked by Rosen . |
| 2 | Elise 's parents had been involved in that accident , too , and it was only after the two cousins lost their families that they became so close . |
| 3 | We got so close , but as someone said it 's better to have tried than not . ’ |
| 4 | They got so close to him and knew him so well that nothing else mattered . |
| 5 | That 's right yes I spoke to someone yesterday on the phone and they said to pop it in , since I lived so close . |
| 6 | It was hoped that , in present circumstances , the drawbridge would not be up nor the portcullis down , with the enemy army camped so close at hand , and its leaders no doubt either in the castle or lodged in houses in the town . |
| 7 | But he came so close . |
| 8 | When she bent her head towards his with her lips softly pouted , she came so close that for one brief moment he thought she might actually kiss his forehead . |
| 9 | A camera on the far side moved , swung in to stare at Michael Bridges , sitting on George 's right , and came so close that George could see inside its Cyclops eye to the movement of the focusing mechanism . |
| 10 | Tim and Butch beat the ferns angrily with their guns as they hunted for her , and once they came so close that Mary 's heart almost stopped beating . |
| 11 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 12 | The gorge walls , over 50 feet in places , came so close they nearly touched and , below , a river straight out of a canoeist 's toybox , not large by any standards but clean , powerful , unspoilt and appearing not to be reliant on heavy rainfall . |
| 13 | One particularly bold animal came so close that we thought he was going to hook his tusks over the edge of our inflatable . |
| 14 | It was so different — the silence was so serene — so tranquil — and the birds came so close — and never had they seen such magnificent trees . |
| 15 | One seemed bolder than the others and came so close that it began to enter the realm of ordinary vision . |
| 16 | They seemed so close , just behind me ! |
| 17 | At times the sounds seemed so close he could have reached out and touched them but if he moved from his spot everything fell silent . |
| 18 | Now that the answer to the mystery seemed so close , why did every instinct warn him to turn away from it ? |
| 19 | I craned down , because the source of the smell seemed so close . |
| 20 | He seemed so close , and yet a million miles away . |
| 21 | At first they seemed so close together as to form an impassable barrier , but as they drew nearer it became clear that they were several yards apart . |
| 22 | She felt humiliated and depressed and the fact that Joanna and Ian seemed so close did nothing to lift her spirits . |
| 23 | Never since the wartime cabinet saw Churchill and Atlee working in concert have the main political parties seemed so close on defence . |
| 24 | The back of a head pushed one of them aside and pressed so close into her face that hair came into her mouth , she could smell the less than clean hair and see the beads of dandruff . |
| 25 | He was quite determined that I was going to try and escape , and followed so close behind me on the railway stations that I could smell his breath . |
| 26 | His leg swung so close that the smooth black cloth brushed against her breast , setting the nerve-endings tantalisingly on edge . |
| 27 | She felt so close to him as she retraced the steps of her childhood and young adult life , that for a moment she was overcome by pain . |
| 28 | It was always chilly at the school because the building was made of stone , rather like a castle , and was perched on the top-most peak of a mountain , surrounded by pine trees which grew so close together that it was very damp and gloomy . |
| 29 | It all looked so close , so welcoming , so immediate . |
| 30 | It looked so close . |