Example sentences of "get close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously they had no idea what lay ahead after they had crossed the bridges and got close to the enemy positions . |
| 2 | He teetered backwards , got close to toppling over , fell back into the snow , looked up and hissed Jesus through clenched teeth . |
| 3 | Now Henry thought about it , she seemed to enter rooms which he was in carefully , keeping her back to the wall ; if he got close to her , she nearly always moved away quickly , usually making sure their bodies did not touch . |
| 4 | Nell pulled it off , got close to the door , and shouted . |
| 5 | Only Paul Smith and Colin Harvey ( I thought his full-time job as Howard Kendall 's assistant at Everton would have kept him too busy to put pencil and crayon to paper ! ) got close to producing something workable , but even Smithy 's attempt in green would have fallen foul to Mr Clough 's watchful eye . |
| 6 | His horse , like Sharpe 's , had been slowed by the plough furrows in the rye field , but the Frenchman rowelled it on as he got close to Sharpe . |
| 7 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 8 | In early June , I got close to the top , and to the cirque , before having to stop the car at a snow-drift ; but if that happens you can simply enough walk the rest of the way or , indeed , walk directly into the cirque along the valley to the left out of He as . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They seemed to be mostly line-and-wash with an occasional burst of colour , and even when I got close to them I found I had to concentrate to see what they were about . |
| 11 | I think the last time you were here we were actually in the bottom half of the table but shot up to about seventh and since then once we got close to the people with games in hand and catching on the extra games we 've come up into the top three sometimes . |
| 12 | The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice . |
| 13 | We have n't got close to the matter yet , we are n't really working at it . ’ |
| 14 | Federalism is even more important but at present Paul does not pretend to have got close to the issues . |
| 15 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 16 | We are now getting close to the flanks of Akka , a seven-peaked mountain that has been visible for four or five days . |
| 17 | Imagine a post-modern , post-punk Morecambe and Wise and you are getting close to Reeves and his foil , Bob Mortimer . |
| 18 | May we be open and honest and trustworthy so that other people are never afraid of getting close to us and need never be afraid of us hurting them . |
| 19 | Anger was getting close to being out of control , Briant suddenly realized , and he made a conscious effort to push it down . |
| 20 | Fig 58 This illustrates the importance of getting close to the board . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the process started at Bristol was a beginning and has since been continued so nobly by Jo , that there are occasions now when I not only know that I am good — getting close to the shining white — but even a benefit to society ! |
| 22 | Well , Peter 's getting close to retirement , and he was hinting that he 'd like to sell out . |
| 23 | They had found a paper in the literature describing the ratio of helium-3 and helium-4 in volcanic regions and were unknowingly getting close to the origins of Chatterjee 's ideas in India . |
| 24 | Add to that determination , patience , skill , desire , stamina and a good pair of shoes and you may be getting close to finding out . |
| 25 | If the policeman had stopped him getting close to where Harry had been shot to death then Erlich might just have punched him . |
| 26 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |
| 27 | HP has also been getting close to Novell , and has been working on a NetWare implementation for its PA-RISC chip a move ahead of other players . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 30 | Bearing in mind that the fish you already have in your pond will grow and place an increasing burden on the filter as they get bigger , you are probably getting close to the capacity of your pond and filter . |