Sentence examples for get close behind from inspiring English sources

Alonso came back at him towards the end of the race, but the current Pirelli tyres go off more rapidly as soon as you get close behind someone.

In a technique known as "drafting", a competitor gets close behind the person or vehicle in front.

Progress was slow, partly because of the volume of people, and partly because of the snow and ice, and I could hear the police getting closer behind me.

Don't listen to music, just because you can't hear the footsteps getting closer behind you, doesn't mean they aren't there.

You never get close to the trough behind the bar.

But the car began rolling backwards ever so slowly while we were stopped on an incline in traffic, leading to the only slightly tense moment of the drive, as we did get close to the car behind.

How did you get close to the guys behind TPB?

But he could never get close, and finished 9.4 seconds behind.

Kinney writes with wit and an acute eye for detail, and as well as producing deft character studies of those who can't get close enough to the man behind the shades, he is very good on Dylan himself and the extent to which he may have encouraged such extreme behaviour by cultivating a mystique right from the outset of his career.

I never let anybody get close to me or walk behind me.

But in order to understand the rationale and emotion that drive China's intense — and surprisingly polarized — views of the Dalai Lama, you have to get close enough to see what lies behind the vitriol.