get next to
Example Sentences
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Officers confiscated Ruiz's gun and forced him to wait outside the school, where he told "anybody that would get next to me" that his wife was in danger, according to his law enforcement interview.
From Salon • Dec. 21, 2022
“Can you safely get next to that person that’s in the car?” the operator asks him.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2022
“He’d be trying to find something in his body, and she would get next to him and start imitating him,” Nicole said.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021
Before they meet their fate, they must never see a dismounted human being, but it was all right to get next to them in Land Rovers.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020
Everyone rushes to the cook fire, pushing and shoving to get next to the little boys, who hold wooden bowls that the old man ladles some kind of porridge into.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
