The policeman approached the bed but didn't try to find a chair.

Some one approached the bed and drew back the curtains.

A man in a white coat, a doctor, approached the bed.

God, maybe we shouldn't after all, she thought as he approached the bed.

Footsteps approached the bed, and a moment later she could feel someone standing next to her.

The closer of the two gestured for her to approach the bed.

He turned around to face her and approached the bed.

He approached the bed and looked down for a minute on the sleeping girl.

As he continued to approach the bed, she did not believe him.

Yet she did nothing to intervene as he approached the bed.