Sentence examples similar to bring something close to from inspiring English sources
And so to John and Edward Grimes, the tuneless crooners with electric-shock hairdos who have become the stand-out act in this year's X Factor, whose performances have brought something close to a grimace to Simon Cowell's face – a manoeuvre generally thought impossible because of Botox.
When you want to bring something closer, or lower, or just need to adjust the angle or whatever, the neck of the monitor lets you bring it down all the way to the level of your desk and tilt it up or down as well (though not side to side).
Thinking about it, with a female director it brings something closer.
"Hopefully I've been able to bring something even close to that, which I can't imagine that I have," he said of the support Connersville had given him.
Her role as Jen in the IT Crowd brought her something close to a cult following (it was that sort of show), as well as two British comedy awards and a Bafta.
Whatever next season brings — perhaps something closer to parity — it will be quite a challenge to trump this season, which ended with Spain and Nadal winning the Davis Cup on Sunday.
Like one of the performers, Scott Jones, says, just "bring your eyes and ears, and something close to the openness we'll be bringing you".
Merely bringing the useless bits of the public sector up to something close to average would save a fortune and improve services dramatically.
She said the first week of the trip has been something close to a dream — an experience she wants to bring home to her family in Ahmedabad.
