Example sentences of "[verb] closer to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes moved closer to her sister and cried at her , ‘ And who would have thought you were outside consorting with one of the Feltons , eh ? |
| 2 | EDINBURGH 's Queen Margaret College moved closer to its aim of becoming the city 's fourth university yesterday , as it won the right to run post-graduate courses , writes Douglas Fraser . |
| 3 | Ebenezer moved closer to his brother , facing Connor ‘ What gives you the right to ask for our mother ? ’ he wanted to know . |
| 4 | Since their mother 's death Claudia had hoped to come closer to her sister , but Dana had the world at her feet and she laughed at all Claudia 's attempts to resurrect the bond they had shared as children . |
| 5 | General Galtieri 's release underlines the fact that the Argentine armed forces may have learned nothing and forgotten nothing , but , by dint of constant pressure on Argentina 's elected leaders , they have moved closer to their goal of rewriting history with themselves in the role of hero . |
| 6 | ‘ OK , ’ she nodded quickly , and noticed as she left the veranda that Bill Hamilton had moved closer to his wife 's side and engulfed her slim artist 's hand in his larger , stronger one in a gesture of silent support . |
| 7 | The Dutch plan envisages people living closer to their workplace and without that happening it is hard to see how they will be persuaded to leave their cars at home . |
| 8 | The small rabbit came closer to his companion , lolloping on long hind legs . |
| 9 | He carried his bright bone knife and seemed to become more cheerful as he came closer to his art . |
| 10 | There can be a great variety of these ; one of the most common is the death , absence , or emotional withdrawal of his father during the formative years of his childhood , which made him draw closer to his mother than he would otherwise have done . |
| 11 | ‘ We ’ , the stupid , ignorant , umbrage-taking members of Mark 's congregation , thought Sophia , moving closer to her husband as if to protect him from them . |
| 12 | The girl 's serious little face was delicate , rounded , promising that she would soon flower into at least as striking a beauty as her mother ; in an attempt to make her smile Joseph winked theatrically at her , but this made her draw closer to her mother and she continued to gaze gravely back at him with the curious , unselfconscious eyes of childhood . |
| 13 | Then , as they turned a bend , Silas unexpectedly stepped closer to her side . |
| 14 | In her attempt to get closer to her mother she had unknowingly identified with the mother 's way of not explaining anything . |
| 15 | Only once did Tess try to get closer to her husband . |
| 16 | As the needle got closer to my arm I remembered that it never used to hurt as long as I gripped really tightly the nice bit of perspex they lend you . |
| 17 | But soon that could change , when he got closer to his prey and his detective instincts took over . |
| 18 | He got closer to his goal than many , however , at least when it came to bringing ‘ joy ’ . |
| 19 | She giggled and snuggled closer to her lover . |
| 20 | And these expected benefits were things such as performance , data could reside closer to its point of most frequent use . |