Example sentences of "get [adv] near [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For nothing , David , ’ said Julia , knowing that it was her fault and not his that they had got so near the brink . |
| 2 | back to the drawing board you 've got a backbone but you 've not got anywhere near a shocking front page . |
| 3 | We have n't got anywhere near a dozen yet ! |
| 4 | But er , ah , you know , it gets up into the garden but I do n't think it , it 's got anywhere near the house er this time , cos I was up there on Thursday and I , you could see where it had been , but it was and I mi I 'd have got very worried about er |
| 5 | Unfortunately , we are getting desperately near the final deadline and most of the pages are already full . |
| 6 | But they needed to be ‘ popular , truly popular , not some CIA-sponsored rag-tag bunch of ne'er-do-wells ’ , he said , getting surprisingly near the bone ; they needed to be ‘ vital ’ and ‘ competent ’ . |
| 7 | We got a little higher on this occasion but again ran into severe icing and again we turned back in order to find less cloud and less icing , on tie third attempt we were getting quite near the Alps and we were collecting a great deal of ice . |
| 8 | If we get too near a car I think oh my god . |
| 9 | Because you 're always walking around with that bloody notebook writing everything down , and you 're not getting anywhere near the truth … |
| 10 | But we were getting too near the truth . |
| 11 | This swimming is a type of orientation , negative chemotaxis in response to the salt as getting too near the salt would result in dehydration of the paramecium . |
| 12 | According to the Malawian government if three large-scale projects were initiated along the lines of the Upper Livulezi pilot project , each serving up to 25 000 people Malawi could get somewhere near the decade target . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , attempts have been made to get as near the truth as possible as the brief account given here indicates . |
| 14 | ‘ An ‘ ordinary ’ girl , as you put it , would n't get anywhere near a son of the Khedive . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't think we 'll get anywhere near a hundred and twenty nine in that ! |
| 16 | But the reality is that 99% of artists working in London will not get anywhere near the shortlist . |
| 17 | And they 're all nice engines but there is nothing that will ever get anywhere near the V twelve . |
| 18 | After lobster in Sligo , eaten late and washed down with Macon Villages , they took the southward route to Charlestown , on the landward side of Slieve Gamph , then on to Claremorris and Tuam , because Rory said he did n't trust himself to take the coastal roads , to get too near the sea . |
| 19 | There 's a lot of effect available , but although the ME-6 has its own programmable EQ I had to employ the combo 's tone controls to get anywhere near the results I wanted . |
| 20 | The Laird of Quarrel did not have the slightest intention of sharing the spoils of office with Craigbarnet , but he was unlikely to get anywhere near the office without strong interest , and those upon whom he relied were ready to see the wisdom of returning to the old practice of sharing the office . |
| 21 | To get anywhere near an understanding of News Corporation 's accounts , you usually have to wait for the figures it is obliged to file with America 's Securities and Exchange Commission . |