Example sentences of "be [v-ing] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they seem to be drawing close to us , we shall kill your niece without hesitation . ’ |
| 2 | And surely we 'll be passing close to Wiesbaden , the HQ of the Kriminalpolizei ? ’ |
| 3 | Add to that determination , patience , skill , desire , stamina and a good pair of shoes and you may be getting close to finding out . |
| 4 | It seems the boys from Sun Microsystems Inc , Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc have had their heads together with Intel Corp for some months and must be getting close to agreeing an Application Binary Interface for Unix with the semiconductor house . |
| 5 | Italy seems to be coming close to that point of no return ; it is rapidly exhausting its reserves of international goodwill as well as its reserves of foreign currency . |
| 6 | If Painkiller were to dump John Zorn 's sax squawk and turn their Marshalls to the max then they might just be edging close to what Zeni Geva and Albini have cooked up here . |