Example sentences of "[verb] almost [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had sat almost silently up till then , but his face was intent . |
| 2 | A tall thin body built almost entirely out of angles . |
| 3 | The boys and I climbed Avalanche Peak ( 5,500 ft ) , from the top of which you look almost vertically down onto the village . |
| 4 | Glyn , Harwood and Schmeiss operate almost entirely out of New York . ’ |
| 5 | and even this early in the song , I have often heard Madame falter and stop , and just open her arms towards us , palms outwards , in a simple refusal to sing , just letting Gary carry the phrase on the piano — and of course we all knew the words anyway and so could hear them even when she was n't singing , sometimes you 'd hear the whole crowd singing almost inaudibly along with her . |
| 6 | They are ‘ normal events ’ , arising almost naturally out of the circumstances of the employment relationship itself : ‘ A wildcat can break out in perfectly normal conditions , and the structure of the relations between employers , trade unions , governments and workers guarantees that some strikes will grow from small beginnings into mighty struggles ’ ( p.241 ) . |
| 7 | A lone cat was padding almost invisibly along in the lee of a low wall . |
| 8 | For a minute longer father and son stood watching as the boat was rowed almost noiselessly out to sea ; and they were just about to return and make their way up the passage to the house when the sound of falling stones broke the silence of the night . |
| 9 | Appropriately the dining room seems to rise almost directly out of the water . |
| 10 | There were many sittings at Freud 's studio in Delamere Terrace , during which the artist , for the purposes of intimate study , sat almost right up against his subject . |