Example sentences of "[adv] and closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was forcing the blade closer and closer to her breast . |
| 2 | When parks are ploughed , there is a tendency for farmers to plough closer and closer to the trunk until eventually the tractor disturbs the roots and the tree suffers , or even dies . |
| 3 | I refer to the children closer and closer to the margins of predictable deviation — the hyperactive youngster with emotional problems , which brings autism to the edge of the teacher 's diagnosis ; the child , otherwise quick-witted , who has massively disabling short-term memory and a confusion in decoding letters : what some would call dyslexia ; the child whose spatial intelligence is exceptionally and marvellously out of line with the celebratory rites of the school community , who fails in conventional school work . |
| 4 | However , this can take a very long time to accomplish — some flyers never manage it — and will bring you closer and closer to the next stage to be conquered — the nose-in hover . |
| 5 | ‘ I realised he was n't going to be able to stop and all I could do was watch him come closer and closer to me . |
| 6 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 7 | What bothered him most was that the past seemed to get closer and closer to the present . |
| 8 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | Then the ship turned again , big and dangerous as she came closer and closer to Ben Gunn 's little boat . |
| 11 | There was nothing for me to hold on to prevent myself from getting closer and closer to the pool . |
| 12 | The muffled bellows were the only sounds he could make as his face was pushed closer and closer to the glowing rings . |
| 13 | We are getting closer and closer to entry by examination only . |
| 14 | One interpretation of this is that as the nationalized industries move closer to some form of privatization so their published financial information appears to become closer and closer to the commercial practice of publishing only that which is required , and no more . |
| 15 | from here , it 's getting closer and closer to a certain value , it reaches that value , and then it changes |
| 16 | But the dogs were very fast and I was getting closer and closer to him . |
| 17 | I got closer and closer to him . |
| 18 | Apricot sat closer and closer to Bernard on the stairs , and he edged further away , distancing himself from temptation . |
| 19 | In this struggle to keep ahead of one 's competitors ( but at the same time to avoid creating opportunities more attractive than necessary ) , market participants are thus forced by the competitive market process to gravitate closer and closer to the limits of their ability to participate gainfully in the market . |
| 20 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |
| 21 | I was getting closer and closer to my goal of 8 ½ st . |
| 22 | You have opened threshold after threshold and stepped closer and closer to the centre of the realm , to the heartwood to Lavondyss . |
| 23 | This becomes increasingly valuable during the final 16 weeks of the course , when our trainees will be getting closer and closer to the point where they become capable of managing the section , initially for the odd late shift , but very definitely with a view to being able to run the department outright by their final two weeks . |
| 24 | This seems to me to be a highly , high responsible budget bringing us closer and closer to a position where we will eventually reach . |
| 25 | Well increasingly , of course , they are English words and that 's because , increasingly , we are getting closer and closer to erm expressing intention , and the thing about language , you see , is that it was designed by nature to be a vehicle for intention , and that 's what we all secretly know , but in fact we 've never been helped to think about it . |
| 26 | You 're getting closer and closer to that magic place Twickenham . |
| 27 | The Col d'Aubisque is high , at 5,600 feet , and the views that you have from it are sumptuous , both back the way you have come , and now to the east as well , across to the prominent peak of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , once thought to be the highest in the chain because it stands rather apart and closer to the plain , and before people took to actually measuring altitudes , the nearest peaks were mistaken for the tallest . |