Example sentences of "that i almost " in BNC.

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1 She turned on me a look so cold , so calculating , that I almost shrank from her .
2 The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then .
3 We were all concentrating so much that I almost giggled .
4 And it was then that I almost tripped over her . ’
5 So gripped did I become with my inability to proceed at one point , that I almost became benighted through ignoring what was literally a keyhole through the rock .
6 She played and sang so plaintively that I almost wept , the song was so sad .
7 After struggling with one of Ruth 's imaginative scenes , I was so relieved when Basil let me attempt to paint a spray of wheat and barley stalks that I almost began to enjoy myself when he made some encouraging remark about my very tentative effort !
8 And it was so lovely to see a bathful of hot water and a proper place that I almost did n't care .
9 As weird Norman Bates was climbing the stairs in that awful , old dark house , the tension was so frightening that I almost screamed aloud , when my then boyfriend grabbed me by the arm and said : ‘ Let's watch horror films together for the rest of our lives ! ’
10 And it was indescribably eerie — so that I almost began to wonder if Posi had brought me to the right planet .
11 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 .
12 He turned my face to his and kissed them away — overpowering me with such a potent mixture of excitement and tenderness and yearning that I almost swooned .
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