Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] almost [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In actual fact my walking stick and gloves are ( I am almost too ashamed to admit ) an elaborate affectation which has by degrees grown into such a habit that I find it difficult , if not impossible , to lay them aside . |
| 2 | I am almost too angry to speak ! ’ |
| 3 | I am almost too drunk to hear them . |
| 4 | Of course , in making my selection I am almost certainly falling into the same trap as those nineteenth-century scientists who thought that the anomalous orbit of Mercury was interesting but , in essence , a matter of little concern . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm almost completely English , you know , apart from the name , although I 've lived most of my life in France . |
| 6 | For example , she described how she had gone about painting ‘ The Shelton with Sunspots ’ ( 1926 ) which was exhibited in 1927 : ‘ I do n't start until I 'm almost entirely clear . |
| 7 | And the other thing is , that if I 'm actually honest with myself and say who I am envious of , I 'm almost never envious of actors , never of directors , but I am envious occasionally of writers . |
| 8 | you may even and this is a bit I mean Saturday lunchtime is a bit I 'm almost almost er oh the producer 's going , Careful careful , which he should know is a red flag to a bull and I might say no but I wo n't . |
| 9 | Finally , Randy warned : ‘ I 'm almost out of gas , man . |
| 10 | I 'm almost out , ’ he said examining his loose change . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm almost bloody certain of it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Now I 'm almost there , a little more time and I 'll prove my innocence . ’ |
| 13 | Erm , yes they have , for forgive me , I 'll just finish this if you do n't mind , I 'm , I 'm almost there , one O ten point three eight . |
| 14 | If you have been told to aim for a very precise figure , or have been following conventional height-to-weight charts , then you are almost definitely trying for an unrealistic weight . |
| 15 | ‘ You are almost back before you left . ’ |
| 16 | If you are almost down to your goal weight and inches you should follow the instructions in the Maintenance Programme detailed on page 164 . |
| 17 | If you are not , you may be heading for potential losses which could have been avoided and you are almost certainly not trading as effectively or profitably as you should ! |
| 18 | You have a decent keeper and you are almost there . |
| 19 | And when you talk about PC networks , you 're almost certainly talking about Ethernet . |
| 20 | What would happen well you 're almost certainly going to get the zinc chloride and what have you got left , hydrogen ah . |
| 21 | It 's a good idea to keep that test data , because later on , you 're almost certainly going to make changes and you 'll therefore need to re-test the system , and a quick way to re-test the system is to put all that test data in again and see if you get the same answers . |
| 22 | ‘ I know sometimes you 're almost brutally male , Henry . |
| 23 | In any case , you 're almost never bailed for a rape charge . |
| 24 | Er however erm if we get past the three stages that er I 'm just talking about here , er we 'll be talking about in the minute at least , er then er you 'll fully understand what I mean about er you 're almost as as employed as you 'll ever be as a self employed person . |
| 25 | He seems to have been an influence on Innocent and we are almost surely not far from the mark in imagining long discussions between the three on theology and politics . |
| 26 | The nearest we can get to a guarantee of success in our moral choices is the cogency of the arguments that we bring to bear in their support coupled with the recognition that what we are almost invariably doing , as MacIver points out and thinkers like Sartre have laboured to establish , is continually deciding between possible alternatives . |
| 27 | To our hosts we are almost cousinly |
| 28 | Now we are almost up to the present . |
| 29 | Until the detailed investigative sources and court records that begin to appear in the reformed diocesan administration of the fourteenth century , we are almost totally in the dark . |
| 30 | We are almost back again with the problem of preformation , but in a modern form . |