Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [vb mod] almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it should have been obvious to the pilot , and to everyone at the launch point , that with either a swing or a wing-drop there would almost certainly be a collision . |
| 2 | For a second she could almost feel the warm slump of the hare 's body , and its weight when it swung from her hand , heavy and loose , as she carried it home by the ears . |
| 3 | But if you do live in a village you will almost certainly know your vicar , and the same could be said of inner-city communities . |
| 4 | I think of you so hard that after a while I can almost feel you kissing me . |
| 5 | Her spine , neck and shoulders ached dully , but after a while she could almost relish the aches , as if each physical pain was another blotter for the press of ideas in her head . |
| 6 | … those countries which I could not visit in my proper person , I have so attentively read about , that as I turn round a globe I can almost fancy that I know the appearance and characters of the portions of the great world itself which lie mapped out under my eye , and observe all that is going forward on its surface . |
| 7 | " If it was n't a pill I could almost be certain of a taste and an odour of liver and bacon , and probably some onions . |
| 8 | Its only significant achievements came at the outset , when the Great Powers recognized the legitimacy of de Gaulle 's government and invited France to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council — a status which would almost certainly not have been offered , had there been no de Gaulle and no Free France . |
| 9 | This was a connection which would almost certainly not have developed but for Gloucester 's duchy office . |
| 10 | This was a connection which would almost certainly not have developed but for Gloucester 's duchy office . |