Example sentences of "[noun sg] get close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared with the ICC — whose point was brilliantly proved by strong refereeing at Bridgetown in April by Raman Subba Row — the English Board got close to the root of the problem but unaccountably jibbed at the final fence . |
| 2 | Humberside has a big concentration of chemical and food industries and this is an attempt to get close to the market . |
| 3 | When Ransome-Wallis visited South Africa during the war , he allowed his desire to get close to the steam engine to overwhelm his awareness of South African racial niceties . |
| 4 | Another way of asking whether cloze gets close to measuring comprehension is to consider what would happen if the sentences in a passage were randomly reordered . |
| 5 | We know it is foolish to be too trusting of other people , but may we be prepared to take risks sometimes and give other people a chance to get close to us . |
| 6 | ‘ She is n't important , never was important — except that she gave me a chance to get close to you again . ’ |
| 7 | It was too late , she 'd accused him once too often , preached one too many sermons … she 'd blown her chance to get close to Guy . |
| 8 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 9 | Her brother did not know the reason and needed a woman to get close to her , and he was prepared to put up with both Mitch and herself to get to the bottom of things . |
| 10 | He has rented the cabin to get close to his boy . |
| 11 | When the interceptor gets close to its target , it is used as a second radar receiver . |
| 12 | I should have made more effort to get close to her , Claudia thought miserably ; all her efforts had been rebuffed , but , deny it or not , the bond was there and she hesitated to turn her sensitive twin over to Roman Wyatt 's not so tender mercy . |
| 13 | Could use Eleanor in order to get close to Jessamy . |
| 14 | ‘ It was the only way to get close to him . ’ |