Example sentences of "'d almost [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Clare was vexed that he 'd almost made her laugh . |
| 2 | He 'd almost decided to quit because the recording equipment could n't handle the volume that Eric was playing at . |
| 3 | She 'd almost lost her garden of paradise in heat and haste and desire . |
| 4 | ‘ It was heart-breaking — she looked so frail , I felt as if I 'd almost lost her , ’ says her mum . |
| 5 | This had been a fact of Lucy 's life for so long now that she 'd almost lost her sense of its shock value , but Josie was hit by it head-on and without warning . |
| 6 | The driver banged on his horn but Gregson drove on at speed , unconcerned by the accident he 'd almost caused . |
| 7 | In her state of extreme nervous tension she had clutched those dollars so tightly that they 'd almost disintegrated . |
| 8 | Adam looked ashen , sick , gripping Undry as if his life depended on it ; and Ruth knew he 'd almost killed her just then . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd almost given you up . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd almost given you up , ’ said Emlyn , half nettled , half intrigued . |
| 11 | I 'd almost given up hope that you 'd ever see me as a girl … a woman . |
| 12 | But I 've walked past so many pretty dresses and little socks with lacy tops , I 'd almost given up . |
| 13 | There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer , he remembered , rarely used now that he 'd almost given up . |
| 14 | She 'd almost reached the door when suddenly a gunshot sounded , shattering the stillness . |
| 15 | They 'd almost reached the place where the party was , but she told the driver to keep going . |
| 16 | He leaned across with the bottle , and she realised that she 'd almost drained her glass at the first attack . |
| 17 | Her expression froze at that , and his heart seemed to sink into his guts as he realised he 'd almost said the wrong thing . |
| 18 | That 's why I agreed to visit la Principessa , she 'd almost said , but what business was that of his ? |
| 19 | I 'd almost fallen asleep while Uncle Hamish had been droning on . |
| 20 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 21 | Carson realised with a guilty start that he 'd almost wandered uninvited into the bedroom , all his attention on the conversation outside . |
| 22 | I 'd almost got the feeling he was attached to me , or maybe I was attached to him . |
| 23 | ‘ Sit down , Willie , ’ he said to Noolan who was so deep in thought he 'd almost walked past the table . |
| 24 | He 'd almost learned it from her . |
| 25 | We 've been back together for so long I 'd almost forgotten about it . |
| 26 | He 'd almost forgotten that he was looking for her . |
| 27 | I 'd almost forgotten why I came . |
| 28 | She 'd almost forgotten — almost forgotten everything except Fand . |
| 29 | He 'd almost forgotten about him . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd almost forgotten . |