Example sentences of "that he [vb past] almost [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Clare was vexed that he 'd almost made her laugh . |
| 2 | There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer , he remembered , rarely used now that he 'd almost given up . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Carson realised with a guilty start that he 'd almost wandered uninvited into the bedroom , all his attention on the conversation outside . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |