Example sentences of "[noun sg] get closer " 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 | Little Billy could feel the monster getting closer , whoomph-whoomph , whoomph-whoomph , whoomph-whoomph . |
| 3 | In her attempt to get closer to her mother she had unknowingly identified with the mother 's way of not explaining anything . |
| 4 | When the group got closer , they broke into a gallop and charged the small party . |
| 5 | War got closer than that … for the clubhouse was made available to the Home guard and also to the Civil Defence as a food store . |
| 6 | In an interview in 1983 Bishop Peter said : ‘ I have a house full of young people who spend a year with me praying and working in the community to get closer to God , and I let them impinge on my ministry . |
| 7 | It may not be easy as the race gets closer , especially if you have to travel and stay overnight . |
| 8 | With our moving day getting closer ; it had been arranged that until the move was completed , he and the cats would go to stay with friends Gavin and Rita Miller , who lived near Dolgellau . |
| 9 | Footwork … and Brabham the chance to get closer to the big guns . |
| 10 | As the Goshawk flight got closer they could see the flickering criss-cross of tracer . |
| 11 | He watched helplessly as the terrible creature got closer to him . |
| 12 | Sound of the train getting closer and before I knew it I was out on that street pushing the trolley . |
| 13 | It was further recognised that project-related work in the library also brought benefits in terms of teacher/pupil interaction and support : you have the opportunity to get closer to them as well … to help them better because you can go round small groups and talk at length while others are getting on with something that you know they are interested in . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As the star got closer to the hole , it slowed down . |
| 16 | As the star got closer to the hole , gravity got stronger . |
| 17 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 18 | You can then do a nice little shot to get closer on the hoop with red |
| 19 | In this new emergency , Lalage looked behind the mask of prosperity and saw a valid reason to get closer to him , yet never to lean or serve . |
| 20 | ‘ There has been a big drive in the last year to get closer to the travel industry generally , ’ says Bill . |
| 21 | If the surrounding web of reality which we perceive is partly true and partly false , then in order to get closer to the truth some things need to be doubted so that others can properly be believed . |