Example sentences of "getting closer " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Corporal and I shouted at the Sergeant to step on it , as the explosions were getting closer . |
| 2 | Sound of the train getting closer and before I knew it I was out on that street pushing the trolley . |
| 3 | Now there was only one possible danger — Red Rum , a long way in arrears but slowly , very slowly , getting closer . |
| 4 | Getting closer we saw that the islands rose more than sheer , their bases eaten away by the sea . |
| 5 | ‘ Still not the one to Freiburg , but we 're getting closer . ’ |
| 6 | I enjoyed getting closer and closer without being spotted . |
| 7 | In his ice-cold and pitch black seclusion , John heard the sounds of his rescuers getting closer to him and tried to count the days by following the shift changes . |
| 8 | Ben Johnson was getting closer to the man who would be his great rival , winning the bronze behind Sam Graddy but ahead of two British sprinters , Mike McFarlane and Donovan Reid . |
| 9 | The barking was getting closer by the second and we could hear the hunters whistling and shouting orders to the dogs , and the sound of the boar scrunching dried leaves and snapping dead branches as it hurtled down through the trees . |
| 10 | From beyond the other end of the yard , she heard the distant whistling of Dennis , getting closer . |
| 11 | ‘ It looks as if the Whistler 's getting closer , does n't it , in more ways than one . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps with FRS 1 we are getting closer to achieving this ideal . |
| 13 | Diana has been furious that some Palace aides tried to build up stories before the tour that the couple were getting closer together again . |
| 14 | But Turkey only lost 1–0 on the last two occasions and coach Sepp Piontek says : ‘ We are getting closer all the time . |
| 15 | With our moving day getting closer ; it had been arranged that until the move was completed , he and the cats would go to stay with friends Gavin and Rita Miller , who lived near Dolgellau . |
| 16 | ‘ We are getting closer , ’ said the Thing . |
| 17 | This suggestion is not dissimilar to the recommended way of getting closer to children by working together over a third object , such as a drawing , or a jigsaw puzzle . |
| 18 | This meant that the thing , the maker of the noise , the galloping creature , was getting closer . |
| 19 | Little Billy could feel the monster getting closer , whoomph-whoomph , whoomph-whoomph , whoomph-whoomph . |
| 20 | He may shadow them for two weeks , gradually getting closer and closer . |
| 21 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and yesterday the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 22 | Remember , while your Goblins are soaking up casualties your real troops are getting closer to the enemy . |
| 23 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and last week the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 24 | The siren was getting closer . |
| 25 | Of course , it 's good to know the ground rules about wearing the right clothes and not jumping on the sett ( certainly , from the badger 's point of view ) , but the consequence of picking up badger-lore slowly — getting closer to the smells , scratches and signs — is that you not only find it easier to watch badgers but also more enjoyable . |
| 26 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 27 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 28 | He was getting closer and I was thinking , Christ does he know about me and Yvonne ? |
| 29 | With Britain getting closer to Iran and with the US constantly improving its rapport with Syria , we felt that now we were all together , we could be released without having to wait for all the governments to restore relations . |
| 30 | By this year 's conference , held last month at the Abbey Hotel in Great Malvern , the ‘ exceptionally rapid and radical change ’ Mr Scott had predicted appeared to be all too close and getting closer . |