Example sentences of "[that] [pron] almost [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mandy and Debby looked the part all right , they looked tough enough for this , particularly Debby , who gave me so much eye-contact and hand-on-knee and dressing-gown disclosure that I almost asked for her telephone number . |
| 2 | She turned on me a look so cold , so calculating , that I almost shrank from her . |
| 3 | The last words came so vehemently that she almost choked on them . |
| 4 | The ham , which everyone ate avidly , and which Sally-Anne forced down , was off and the butter was so rancid that she almost choked over it . |
| 5 | When he released her it was with such force that she almost fell to the floor . |
| 6 | The idea of the lofty Naylor Massingham sitting impatiently outside her apartment block for an hour was one which Leith found quite pleasing — so much so that she almost broke into a smile . |
| 7 | It was obviously old , but so corroded that it almost fell to pieces in my hand . |
| 8 | THE SO-CALLED disease-of-the-month club is currently mustering legislative support for an objective that it almost reached in the last session of congress : creation of a separate headquarters for arthritis research at the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) . |
| 9 | Through the first course , clear soup so strong that it almost jellied in an empty soup plate , he talked to Aunt Tossie while she supped up her soup delightedly and gave him gardening secrets for his mother . |
| 10 | She scuttled over to the far side of the room and had managed to read quite a lot of the letter before Julius came charging after her , taking the paper back from her with such force that it almost ripped in half . |
| 11 | He was so drunk that he almost fell on top of her . |
| 12 | The only point the press reports missed was that Jim Prior was so unhappy that he almost threw in his hand and resigned . |
| 13 | Prior Robert was still so blind that he almost stumbled on the steps , but recovered himself with aristocratic dignity and by the time he reached the tiles of the floor was his complacent official self again . |