Sentence examples for got quite close from inspiring English sources

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We got quite close then, when he was so ill.

I was out in the middle at the end and it actually got quite close.

This time I got quite close to her and the pretend duck before she saw me, and she jumped backward.

"But in some cases the crew haven't operated this, and in my view they have got quite close to catastrophe – if it was at night they could have turned out badly".

I got quite close to this Neanderthal, until I saw the texture of his skin and the glint in his eye, and I was ever so slightly afraid that he was going to blink.

They would sit right by the side of the road, sometimes in the road, and stare quietly back at us as we went up to them, then just as we got quite close, the eyes would blink once and the face would seem really to change expression — becoming surprised, and annoyed with itself for being surprised — and the owl would fly off..

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I think we were getting quite close to a seizing up moment in 2006..

"But I ended up spending two years in a mud hut village being the only foreigner, learning the language, and getting quite close with the community".

When he was shooting news with his medium-format Rolleiflex, he was looking down into the camera and getting quite close to his subjects — even in volatile situations.

Visitors can, however, get quite close in relative safety by taking a trail from the Tabacon Resort near the pretty town of La Fortuna.

"One can get quite close to the ultimate physical limit of memory without having to resort to thermonuclear explosions," Dr. Lloyd said.

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