This time he kept close to his father; he was thinking.
"Kelly has told me you were very close to her father," said Pitt, trying to get off the subject of death.
Not just close, but close to her father for the first time.
"I wonder what she was doing," Elizabeth said, standing close to her father.
Once, passing close to her father, she paused to look down at him.
At times, Jake didn't feel close to his father, who always expected the best in grades - and all else - from him.
I kept close to my father, for fear that the monster Hank might come after me again.
Get close to my father and you deserved a prize.
It was a confession that I'd never bothered to get very close to my father.
That way she can stay close to home and her father.