1.   A knife-point poked into his back every few seconds, so he knew that the mestizo was close behind him.

2.   A paw print in the dust was a sign that a tiger was close.

3.   Agreement is extremely close and provides little evidence for selection between families or against new seedling recruits.

4.   All the good spots are close to the ring road.

5.   And interestingly, the pictures these two picked are close to home.

6.   As the links between painting and teaching are close, the mixture of the two elements has important consequences.

7.   At first there was silence as they drove along the quiet road, simply enjoying being close to each other.

8.   At times, the similarities are too close for comfort, edging towards the derivative.

9.   Balder Head farmhouse was so close to the reservoir that the water lapped up to the garden wall.

10.   But he was perilously close to the edge of the crumbling cliff.