Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was she any closer to a solution , to finding out why her husband had died ? |
| 2 | The last letter , bearing the date of 8 June , read : ‘ My heart is very full this evening — a letter from you has just come in , and that brings you even closer to me . |
| 3 | Are we really closer to each other than we think ? |
| 4 | Similarly , his views on architecture , education and social issues have brought him much closer to the man in the street than any of his relatives . |
| 5 | That is , I shall argue that the power/knowledge assumptions which form the very basis of Bourdieu 's conceptual framework place him much closer to Foucault and the postmodernist end of the theoretical spectrum . |
| 6 | ‘ Are they any closer to finding out who did it ? ’ |
| 7 | In the end it was David who spoke first , drawing her even closer to him and pulling the duvet round them both . |
| 8 | Fauvism had by now largely spent itself , and Braque 's search during the following years for a more solid foundation for his painting drew him increasingly closer to Picasso . |
| 9 | She heard a groan leave him , and in the next moment his mouth was over hers again , and he was pulling her yet closer to him , his hand warm at her back , moulding her to him . |
| 10 | And then , as he pulled her hungrily closer to him , she became forcefully aware that he was naked , the hard thrust of his flesh causing shock waves of erotic excitement to zigzag through her quivering figure . |
| 11 | He had learnt about it much closer to the time of the murder . |
| 12 | We decided that it would be easier to send them by air to Singapore , placing them considerably closer to their intended final destination . |
| 13 | His signature on the title of his copy of Virgil , probably written there in his quieter days at Jesus College , Cambridge , surely brings us much closer to that momentous day still celebrated in November and commemorated by the ceremonial searching of the cellars of the House of Commons . |
| 14 | An interesting consequence of taking this much looser view of determinism is that it brings us much closer to the classical position . |
| 15 | Looking backwards over the history of inquiry , from the security of our current views , we may see evidence of the cunning of reason bringing us gradually closer to the approximately true , but from that perspective we can offer descriptions and explanations of what was going on which show , for instance , that hypothesis selection was not ‘ blind ’ . |
| 16 | We may now represent the mental capacities of the cerebral hemispheres of an advanced organism in a simple model that gets us far closer to the condition of our own species ( Fig. 2. i ) . |