Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] closer to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Light and dark imagery represent the opposites life and death as the imagery gets darker while the poet gets closer to death both in himself and in the poem . |
| 2 | They 'll gather information on how the wind behaves closer to ground level . |
| 3 | NEW OPERATIONS BOSS MOVES CLOSER TO HOME |
| 4 | But the US Army remained segregated , with separate training and units and with black officers inferior to whites of similar rank — though the Navy moved closer to integration ; and there were race riots in army camps during the war years . |
| 5 | Individual tours are allocated the appropriate ferry crossing closer to departure date . |
| 6 | The situation in the Caribbean was significantly different in that the process of " dialect creation " actually involved the creation of new languages through the processes of pidginisation and creolisation , and subsequently , decreolisation — as the Creole grew closer to Standard through prolonged contact with the lexifier language ( the language which contributed most of the vocabulary — in this case , English ) . |
| 7 | He needed the means to get abroad as the nation drifted closer to war with Germany . |
| 8 | Such may be the consequence of subletting council property without prior approval of the local authority , in order to live closer to college . |
| 9 | But perhaps television edged closer to the public , or the public edged closer to television , as the campaign progressed ? |
| 10 | Not very , is the feeling among many UK general aviation operators as the Single European Market comes closer to fruition . |