(1) Sarah closed the book and laid it aside.

(2) Slowly he closed the book.

(3) Detectives had closed the book on the Hornsey Murders case three years previously.

(4) I closed the book, touching it gently.

(5) The police have closed the book on the Hannah Davies case.

(6) Rady made a motion to close the book on the matter.

(7) And, by definitively closing the book on the past(), the language of socialism also remains trapped in Stalinism's wreckage.

(8) He closed the book and slipped it into a polythene bag.

(9) The goal of reading is to be done with it, to be able to close the book and play.

(10) Quinn let out a little sigh and closed the book.

(11) She closed the book and peered up at him over the frame of her reading glasses.

(12) And we are closing the books on the temporary program that helped parts suppliers weather this storm—returning this investment to the Treasury in full, with interest, as well.

(13) In 1820 the state of New York purchased the company's works, closing the books on the 18th-century canal scheme.

(14) After recording all transactions for the year, accountants close the books. Closing the books provides for the following.

(15) But the link between spicules and coronal heating holds promise for closing the books on a 70-year-old mystery, says Kenneth Phillips of University College London.

(16) This month, the Pentagon and the Iraqi government are finally closing the books on the program that handled all those Benjamins.

(17) Example : Our accounting department worked quite late last night closing the books for this month.