Example sentences of "almost [adj] [noun sg] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hard , flat , almost contemptuous note in his voice sent shivers of apprehension feathering down her spine . |
| 2 | For one team 's desperate desire to establish its worth in the scrums , Toks has had to play the price of a life confined to a wheelchair , a need for 24-hour-a-day attendants , and an almost total loss of his business and social aspirations . |
| 3 | The PR person is very often in a cleft stick between how he knows the media will react to his story and the sometimes almost mindless enthusiasm of his client or boss . |
| 4 | Eliot transfers this , yet another image of terrible pain , to an almost surreal context in his poem , but the woman who draws her long black hair out tight is related to that other hysterical woman of ‘ A Game of Chess ’ , since she too is seen brushing her hair . |
| 5 | As the dancers changed partners , set to each other , backed away , then set again and spun with crossed arms , Donald McCulloch became masterful , gripping the girls ' hands strongly , spinning so hard that the balls of their feet ached on the cobbles , and passing them on with an almost lordly flourish of his arm . |
| 6 | Joseph , who succeeded the Ritz-Escoffier partnership , had an almost unique devotion to his art . |
| 7 | By Sunday evening , what had seemed utterly ludicrous a mere forty-eight hours before , had taken on almost tangible form in his mind . |
| 8 | Alain 's sharp command had her jerking her head up from her almost frantic study of his mother , and she realised that her fixed stare was embarrassing the woman a great deal . |
| 9 | When he hung on to the ball there was a strange , self-assured almost narcissistic side to his game . |
| 10 | Hugh approached and they sat down together , the Corduroys and the Pargeters , and Molly felt that her husband 's almost invisible disposal of his food was a criticism of her lack of delicacy and the extent to which she had to open her mouth to accommodate her bun . |
| 11 | And he was walking with a man of Levantine wealth whose demise would permit him , Hope , almost certain access to his fortune through marriage to its heir . |
| 12 | By now her cheeks were flaming and he looked at her with an almost analytical expression on his face . |