Example sentences of "[pers pn] have almost [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd almost given you up , ’ said Emlyn , half nettled , half intrigued . |
| 2 | I 'd almost given up hope that you 'd ever see me as a girl … a woman . |
| 3 | But I 've walked past so many pretty dresses and little socks with lacy tops , I 'd almost given up . |
| 4 | ‘ It was heart-breaking — she looked so frail , I felt as if I 'd almost lost her , ’ says her mum . |
| 5 | I 'd almost fallen asleep while Uncle Hamish had been droning on . |
| 6 | We 've been back together for so long I 'd almost forgotten about it . |
| 7 | I 'd almost forgotten why I came . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd almost forgotten . |
| 9 | I 'd almost forgotten about them . |
| 10 | I 'd almost forgotten it was so near Christmas . |
| 11 | By all that 's holy , I 'd almost forgotten we were in a place where they sell beer . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd almost forgotten how good you look in the mornings . ’ |
| 13 | When I reached Denis 's , I 'd almost forgotten about my brassy hair . |
| 14 | I 'd almost forgotten . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd almost forgotten , ’ she admitted . |
| 16 | I 'd almost got the feeling he was attached to me , or maybe I was attached to him . |
| 17 | I think I 'd almost convinced myself that when I saw you I 'd be cured . |
| 18 | It was fortuitous that my slackening off in actual programme production at CBC coincided with an increasing social activity , mainly with the Semmens family , whose house I had almost begun to regard as home . |
| 19 | I had almost reached the kitchen doorway when I heard the furious sounds of her footsteps coming back towards me again . |
| 20 | By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had . |
| 21 | By the time I had almost given up hope , a telegram arrived . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ It has been such a long time coming I had almost given up hope . |
| 23 | Thinking that dog must not eat dog , even if my meal be only that of a mongrel , I had almost decided to spare him . |
| 24 | By now I had almost convinced Rick to change to the boilie when I had another take on the Tropicana ; this was all the convincing he needed as I landed a nice mirror around the 12lb mark . |
| 25 | And I had almost forgotten the lilt of a Scottish accent , the sense of pleasure that can flow behind its reserve . |
| 26 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 27 | I had almost forgotten about him and immediately felt depressed as I trudged off to find my car . |
| 28 | At the end of April I had almost forgotten my prediction for a release when Bilal and his partner , for whom we had no other name than Frank 's ‘ Jerk ’ , excitedly started spring-cleaning both the apartment and us . |
| 29 | I had almost expected to see giant Atlantic waves smashing against the great wall but , no , the far side was still quite calm , sunshine , a picturesque blue bay , shell white/silver beaches though , on the horizon , ominous looking ranks of white surf . |
| 30 | ‘ I had almost forgot it . ’ |