make advances (?.)
- act on
- answer
- approach
- bear upon
- break the ice
- communicate with
- contact
- correspond
- court
- cultivate
- draw
- draw on
- establish connection
- exert influence
- get cozy with
- get to
- importune
- interrogate
- lead on
- lobby
- lobby through
- magnetize
- maintain connection
- make a pass
- make an overture
- make contact with
- make overtures
- make up to
- overture
- pay addresses to
- pay court to
- play up to
- proposition
- pull strings
- question
- raise
- reach
- relate to
- reply to
- respond to
- run after
- shine up to
- solicit
- suck up to
- throw a pass
- wire-pull
- work on
