He worked closer to the bull's horns than had ever been believed possible and became an overnight sensation.
Maugham's experience in the first world war, when he worked close to the western front as an ambulance driver, confirmed his atheism.
While the girls were young, he worked close to shore on a small lobster boat so that he could be home every night.
I didn't know it then, but he worked close by in a studio in Holland Park, so we were quite convenient for him.
He also worked closed with the former Irish government minister, Paddy Harte, on promoting awareness of the involvement of Irish nationalists in the two world wars.
He works close to original word-meanings, too: any shifts are of the unavoidable variety.
The story of this man, Taisto, begins inauspiciously enough after the mine in which he works closes.
He works close to the melody, as he did on Jerome Kern's "The Song Is You," often sprinkling unbelievably brisk passages among his lyrical attack.
"He doesn't involve a lot of people; he works close to the vest". Bevins said he has better control of his schedule now, but he has suffered one more heart attack since joining Perelman and underwent quintuple bypass surgery last winter.
But his last job ended in March 2001, shortly before the software start-up where he was working closed.
The smelting works closed in September 2009.
