Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] almost [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with part of her mind — the part that had stood back from their embrace — she was dimly aware that she had almost wanted to believe the worst . |
| 2 | She had finally cracked the ice with young Nick , and was now flexing and exercising muscles , as she madly twirled and twisted the rows of red-painted wooden men , that she had almost forgotten she had . |
| 3 | As she watched him leave , without so much as a glance in her direction , such a feeling of desolation had swept over Isabel that she had almost cried out . |
| 4 | And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self ! |
| 5 | He leaned across with the bottle , and she realised that she 'd almost drained her glass at the first attack . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The back of her hand was pressed violently to her mouth , she dimly realised , and she was biting her knuckle so hard that she 'd almost drawn blood . |
| 8 | Just in time she stopped herself from confiding that she 'd almost forgotten how to dance . |
| 9 | In her state of extreme nervous tension she had clutched those dollars so tightly that they 'd almost disintegrated . |
| 10 | Progress was reported on the Israeli-Jordanian strand of negotiations , and on Oct. 28 the two sides announced that they had almost finalized a full agenda . |
| 11 | Thorn 's shares shot ahead 20p to 848p on the news that it had almost doubled annual profits to £289.9m . |
| 12 | Then Clare was vexed that he 'd almost made her laugh . |
| 13 | There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer , he remembered , rarely used now that he 'd almost given up . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Carson realised with a guilty start that he 'd almost wandered uninvited into the bedroom , all his attention on the conversation outside . |
| 16 | Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry . |
| 17 | So thick had the mist become that he had almost lost his way and hoping to hear the call of one of the animals to orientate himself had heard an eagle 's call and one he knew well . |
| 18 | Sometimes he laughed and sometimes he cried , but most of the time he just looked , unbelieving , into the handsome face of the son that he had almost forgotten . |