Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb mod] almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fancy I can almost hear him now , exclaiming ‘ Harp ? |
| 2 | In other words , I mean I 'm retired and I mean the point is that my erm experience goes back into the er into the dark ages I can almost say because in these days , you probably realise , I mean if anybody buys a video you do n't ask you do n't look for the book of instructions you ask about a five year old kiddy how to programme it ! |
| 3 | ‘ If I had n't replied to a client for five months I would almost expect a visit from them in response to a complaint ! ’ |
| 4 | In the middle of working on a difficult piece I can almost feel my ears grow , he said . |
| 5 | It is , of course , both a name and a concept which readily stimulates knee jerk responses , stereotyped visions and hackneyed images in most people 's minds — images which will almost invariably feature great frozen wildernesses , blinding blizzards , steel-shattering frosts , and , of course , legions of fur-wrapped , fettered convicts and political prisoners — ‘ exiled to Siberia ’ , in the chilling cliché — by the autocratic Russian state . |
| 6 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 7 | Both the pulsar and its companion have masses close to and move in tight orbits which would almost fit inside the Sun ( is one solar mass ) . |
| 8 | When she crossed her legs you could almost see her stocking-tops . |
| 9 | If you stand where King Harold 's men awaited William 's troops or walk through the actual battlefield you can almost sense the battle all around you . |
| 10 | If you attend an interview you will almost certainly be asked : |
| 11 | Compared with the black and grey tones for the blue and red of the other roundels one might almost believe that on number five the roundel ring immediately inside the yellow is red and the inner spot is blue , although on this one the tail stripes appear similar to numbers one , two , four and six . |
| 12 | In any piece of country under study there will almost certainly be insufficient evidence to reconstruct the settlement and land use patterns of early prehistory , such as are described above . |
| 13 | However , it should have been obvious to the pilot , and to everyone at the launch point , that with either a swing or a wing-drop there would almost certainly be a collision . |
| 14 | If boards are in too bad a condition to be revived by any of the preceding methods they can almost certainly be retrieved by paint topped up with several coats of polyurethane . |
| 15 | If this is an enemy he will almost certainly be slain . |
| 16 | Indeed , Mr Wolski rarely looked anyone full in the face , seeming meek and quiet as if in a strong wind he might almost have been blown away . |
| 17 | It had been a terrible summer , she reflected , one of those damp , chilly English summers which could almost be mistaken for one of their recent damp , mild winters . |
| 18 | So much so that they would rather live in a UK which seems set to have permanent Tory government than an independent Scotland which would almost certainly be Socialist . |
| 19 | In reality , slow , monotonous painstaking work which would almost certainly prove unrewarding . |
| 20 | But if you do live in a village you will almost certainly know your vicar , and the same could be said of inner-city communities . |
| 21 | For a second she could almost feel the warm slump of the hare 's body , and its weight when it swung from her hand , heavy and loose , as she carried it home by the ears . |
| 22 | After climbing the hill at Vezelay we could almost feel part of the preaching of St Bernard and the 2nd Crusade . |
| 23 | If the explosive used was Semtex it would almost certainly be the biggest IRA bomb ever planted on the British mainland . |
| 24 | Accommodation on Fregate was in chalets thatched with palm leaves and situated on the top of the beach so that at high tide you could almost jump into the sea from your window . |
| 25 | And the decision she would almost certainly come to would be a hard one to take . |
| 26 | Tarvie trout fight like fury and are beautifully marked with bright red spots ; and in this delightful little loch there are some excellent fish which can almost pull the rod from your hand in their first mad rush . |
| 27 | You gave me to understand that even if you had not had your accident you would almost certainly not have come to France to see him at the end . ’ |
| 28 | In some places on exceptionally clear days you can almost see from the south to the north coast . |
| 29 | Sweetheart you can almost do this . |
| 30 | The robe was Chrissie 's , and when Weaver saw her wearing it , from the dimly lit hallway he would almost certainly think it was Chrissie standing there . |