A century from Alastair Cook and four wickets from Graeme Swann put England in command on day four of the second Test against New Zealand.
The hosts finished the day 309 runs ahead of Brendon McCullum's men, who struggled to 158-6 before bad light brought Monday's proceedings at Headingley to an end.
Cook had earlier opted to declare with a lead of 468 after England reached a second innings total of 5-287.
England had resumed play on 1-116, 296 runs ahead, after Cook opted not to enforce the follow-on when the tourists had been skittled out for 174 on day three.
Cook and Jonathan Trott soon set about increasing that the advantage, the England captain reaching his hundred after smashing a Tim Southee delivery away for four in just the seventh over of the day.
Trott soon reached his 50 as the pair constructed a partnership of 134, before Cook's marvellous innings was ended when he was caught by Southee at mid-off from the bowling of Kane Williamson with England on 2-206.
That dismissal provoked something of a slew of wickets, with Ian Bell soon following Cook to the pavilion as he became Williamson's second victim just 13 balls later.
Trott and Joe Root provided fleeting resistance with a stand of 35 before Neil Wagner accounted for Trott's wicket, and Root could only put on 19 with Yorkshire team-mate Johnny Bairstow before Wagner struck again to leave England on 5-268.
Bairstow and Prior hung around briefly, moving the score up to 287 before Cook decided he had seen enough and chose to attack New Zealand to try and seal the win.
It didn't take long for the tourists to lose an early wicket, as Peter Fulton edged a short bouncing delivery from Broad straight into the path of Bell.
England and Swann then piled the pressure onto the pairing of Hamish Rutherford and Williamson, who added a mere 19 from seven overs before the latter succumbed to spin, becoming Swann's first scalp of the innings as he was trapped lbw by the Northamptonshire bowler.
Rutherford's fight had been more determined, but it took just shy of six overs for him to fall eight runs short of a half-century - caught at short-leg by Root as Swann struck again to leave New Zealand on 3-65.
New Zealand finally found a partnership in Ross Taylor and Dean Brownlie, who ground out a stand of 79 in 23.3 overs as the England bowlers toiled to try and bring the match to a swift conclusion.
Taylor contributed 54 runs to that stand, but Brownlie met his end after failing to duck out of the way of a wicked delivery from Finn to edge into the hands of Bell.
Martin Guptill's time at crease was also short-lived as he became the third batsman accounted for by Swann and, when Taylor was eventually dismissed by the England spinner shortly after, New Zealand's challenge looked to be coming to a close.
The overcast conditions in Leeds would have their say, however, with the umpires electing to bring the players off with McCullum and Southee at the crease and their side staring down the barrel of defeat.