101.   His voice dropped to a low note of affection as he slid an arm around her shoulders and drew her close to his side.

102.   Struggling this close to the muscular height of Guy Sterne was a big mistake, she dimly reflected, because each fresh body contact was a torment.

103.   That deeply masculine voice, far too close to her ear, could only belong to one person.

104.   She hugged Thomas close to her.

105.   But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death.

106.   Villagers are battling with a mobile phone company over the siting of an aerial close to their homes.

107.   The aim of Operation Market Garden was to secure a bridgehead at Arnhem, a Dutch town close to the Germnan border.

108.   They were taken out and supported by James and Dorothy Rothschild close to Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury.

109.   Tinitus in her ears is the only physical reminder of the violent illness... which left her unconscious and close to death.