Example sentences of "[verb] closer to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the US Army remained segregated , with separate training and units and with black officers inferior to whites of similar rank — though the Navy moved closer to integration ; and there were race riots in army camps during the war years . |
| 2 | Some reasons you may find apply in your case include : deciding on a career change ; looking for more responsibility ( both good , positive reasons ) ; coming to the end of seasonal or short-contract employment ; insufficient money ; wanting to work closer to home . |
| 3 | But the subjects I have been concerned with recently have been more directly related to my own experience of life : the situation in Northern Ireland ; the Gulf War ; my thoughts have come closer to home . |
| 4 | In the past two weeks America and its allies have moved closer to war with Iraq . |
| 5 | The arrival of new information is more likely to affect spot and futures prices in the same way ( so reducing basis risk ) if it arrives closer to delivery instead of further away . |
| 6 | For this reason , we will not attempt an international analysis but focus closer to home on the situation in UK schools . |
| 7 | She came closer to Rain as though she wished to speak without being overheard , although they were alone . |
| 8 | Were you to bring a tenth of the consideration that you show them and your parishioners to needs that lie closer to home you would find a more contented wife at your side . |
| 9 | If you are looking for vandals then I think some people should look closer to home . |
| 10 | On other occasions a guerrilla could snake along such cover on his stomach , his legs pressed flat , knees to the ground as he wriggled closer to enemy positions , or — like one Corporal — he squirmed away from possible capture . |
| 11 | I felt at peace with the world , even though by the summer of 1939 Europe seemed to be drifting closer to war and everyone was glued to the BBC short-wave Overseas Service bulletins , or even devouring month-old copies of The Times which had been airmailed to Australia and sent on by ship , together with the Illustrated London News , Tatler , and particular titles ordered by the expatriates . |
| 12 | Moidart 's trip from her Newmarket base to Edinburgh last time was rewarded with victory and she should score closer to home in the Charter Handicap . |
| 13 | Moidart 's trip from her Newmarket base to Edinburgh last time was rewarded with victory and she should score closer to home in the Charter Handicap . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll know the number for sure in a few months as we get closer to completion ’ , he says . |
| 15 | Palin is moving closer to centre stage , as the two BBC travelling series reveal . |
| 16 | Speaker K's contribution ‘ picks up ’ the past time element , moving closer to speaker J's time while maintaining the personal reference in my father , who also did work ( stonemason ) comparable to J's ( bricklayer ) and received money for this work . |
| 17 | Moving closer to home , on the offence of causing death by dangerous or drunken driving , the hon. Member for Huddersfield referred to the Road Traffic Act 1991 , whereby an offender will be found guilty if he drives dangerously , thereby causing someone 's death , whether or not he intended to do so or even knew about it . |
| 18 | The poem is divided into three quatrains each moving closer to death just as the poet himself is approaching his demise . |
| 19 | This policy means that the USA was moving closer to war . |
| 20 | Light and dark imagery represent the opposites life and death as the imagery gets darker while the poet gets closer to death both in himself and in the poem . |
| 21 | GETS CLOSER TO PYRAMID — WILL TAKE TOP-END MACHINES OEM |
| 22 | The situation in the Caribbean was significantly different in that the process of " dialect creation " actually involved the creation of new languages through the processes of pidginisation and creolisation , and subsequently , decreolisation — as the Creole grew closer to Standard through prolonged contact with the lexifier language ( the language which contributed most of the vocabulary — in this case , English ) . |
| 23 | Such may be the consequence of subletting council property without prior approval of the local authority , in order to live closer to college . |
| 24 | He needed the means to get abroad as the nation drifted closer to war with Germany . |
| 25 | But perhaps television edged closer to the public , or the public edged closer to television , as the campaign progressed ? |
| 26 | Anything to get closer to home … stalling tactics … |
| 27 | As it seemed to get closer to reality , I felt myself changing . |
| 28 | NEW OPERATIONS BOSS MOVES CLOSER TO HOME |
| 29 | ‘ She will never come closer to death than she did on Sunday . ’ |
| 30 | The answer to that may lie closer to home with parents . |