Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walk closer to the river where there are some huts . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel closer to Chris , doing the sort of work he used to do , ’ she said to Sarah . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel closer to you , Bobkins , ’ said Maisie . |
| 4 | It 's quite interesting sometimes how you get a question back or you get closer to the young people as a result . |
| 5 | All this in a choice of four languages , English , French , German and Spanish , so will teach your child the basic understanding of foreign languages which ca n't be a bad thing , as every day , we grow closer to our European neighbours . |
| 6 | The fear that overtakes me seems to increase as we get closer to the big day . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll know the number for sure in a few months as we get closer to completion ’ , he says . |
| 8 | As we narrow down the proportion of the labour market that appears to benefit from lifetime employment in Japan , we get closer to the proportion of labour in Western countries employed by large companies who work to seniority wage profiles that offer accumulating reward for experience . |
| 9 | In this way we get closer to the efficient solution in which the marginal cost of pollution reduction is equalized across firms . |
| 10 | ‘ It is my hope and conviction that as we journey closer to him we shall find ourselves travelling with others and imperceptibly growing together into his beauty and likeness , and away from the ugliness and bitterness which has dogged the history of our Communions . |
| 11 | Probably , the presence of a mutant gene just brings an individual one step closer to the possibility of cancer . |
| 12 | We come closer to contemporary retirement with the second Roberts grandfather , a man who had been much less successful at work , and after failing as a shopkeeper had nearly failed as a farmer until his son took over . |
| 13 | And Bailey 's comments are backed up by the trainer Derek Meredith who says American jockeys are better , they ride closer to the horse they 're neater and they are stronger too . |
| 14 | As the enemy advances the hand gunners use their ability to change ranks as they fire so that they creep closer to the enemy . |
| 15 | The girl 's serious little face was delicate , rounded , promising that she would soon flower into at least as striking a beauty as her mother ; in an attempt to make her smile Joseph winked theatrically at her , but this made her draw closer to her mother and she continued to gaze gravely back at him with the curious , unselfconscious eyes of childhood . |
| 16 | She had also wondered if seeing the places he went might make her feel closer to him , but it had n't . |
| 17 | But as a literal succession of images they come closer to the disconnected temporality of the succession of perceptual memories in the unconscious . |
| 18 | Distant objects are small and get larger when they come closer to the camera . |