Example sentences of "get [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not like the fact that his potential assassins had got so close to the Hotel where he was staying . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , it always seemed to me that the Cathars had got pretty close to it , ’ he said . |
| 3 | It had got amazingly close to her too . |
| 4 | I mean , can you think of any other situation , Pop , when a man gets so close to a woman except when he 's actually making love to her ? ’ |
| 5 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 6 | ‘ Until then waves had looked like a pleasant photogenic distraction on television , and not a serious challenge to anything else , ’ Salter recalled , ‘ but getting so close to 5 p/kWh would have rung a lot of alarm bells with people who would feel threatened . ’ |
| 7 | And all I know is he 's getting literally close to home and he works for you , if you include disabling your barmen in the conditions of employment , that is . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 're getting awfully close to the reef . ’ |
| 9 | Get as close to subject as you can |
| 10 | You get as close to it as you can and get your brother out while we deal with the hijackers . ’ |
| 11 | Get really close to the happy animals at Monkey Mountain , Meerkat Mound and Penguin Bay with dramatic underwater viewing . |
| 12 | We were getting interestingly close to setting a new record . |
| 13 | Walter , down below them and with the waters getting perilously close to the tops of his waders , says , ‘ Something 's rotten under here . |
| 14 | Are you aware that you 're getting perilously close to slander ? |
| 15 | But , when he gets too close to any dog he growls and barks . |
| 16 | Alarm messages appear on the screen if the chase car gets too close to , or too far from , the lead car . |
| 17 | Women can similarly become inwardly cold when a man gets too close to them . |
| 18 | Although Satan has the power to hurt people who get too close to him , his power is not unstoppable ! |
| 19 | But if you find it , under NO circumstances get too close to it . |
| 20 | ‘ Not get too close to it ? |
| 21 | getting too close to the interviewer . |
| 22 | Avoid getting too close to them and certainly do n't try to wrestle with them or restrain them . |
| 23 | He had made no attempt to kiss her again — in fact , he seemed deliberately to avoid getting too close to her at all . |
| 24 | That approach was also rejected , because it was getting too close to a rating system , but it would have had some logic , a factor that is entirely outwith the system with which we are now confronted . |
| 25 | Subsequently , one of the three , Francesco Di Maggio , in a television appearance , suggested that they had been withdrawn because they were getting too close to identifying links between the Mafia and establishment figures . |
| 26 | Look at it this way : Track Two is now doing just what it was set up to do in just the situation they foresaw : a weak British government getting too close to Moscow . |
| 27 | It was getting too close to reality . |
| 28 | While I was visiting the area , one perched on a small hawthorn tree on the other side of the road and I got quite close to it . |
| 29 | I do n't much care which , ’ said Fenella , who did not really want Caspar to ride off and leave her alone out here , but who was not going to get so close to Nuadu and then ride away and leave him . |
| 30 | If you can get so close to barbel , with or without them knowing it , you should take the opportunity to study how they use the available cover to sneak under ; how they move like silent wraiths across the bottom , and how they rake over the gravel on the bottom with their barbules . |