Example sentences of "almost [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no build-up or anything like it , they are just mentioned , almost as part of the tree . |
| 2 | The music began casually , almost as part of the conversation , a falling line of notes and a soft wooden rhythm near the edge of the drum . |
| 3 | ‘ A woman sees the home as her base and she dresses to complement that environment almost as part of the decoration . |
| 4 | Yorkshire is a cold place and I could remember the sensation almost of shock at the start of my first winter in Darrowby . |
| 5 | Her tightly tailored strapless dress matched her lips exactly , as did the shoes that even Belinda recognised as highest quality Italian leather , the kind of leather with a fine grain that was almost like satin to the touch . |
| 6 | They are about to kill Simon who is their only sign of hope therefore when they do accidentally kill him , the island is almost like hell with no good on it . |
| 7 | One branch went down directly to the Horse Fair , the other , this one , cut through to emerge halfway along the Foregate , almost within sight of the abbey gatehouse . |
| 8 | William in the woods , outskirts of Edinburgh , almost within sight of the estate where his and Yvonne 's new house is , toting a paint gun on another of these stupid but grudgingly-sometimes-fun-in-a-terribly-boyish-sort-of-way paint-ball games ( his computer-company boys and girls versus the crack troops of the Caledonian news room ) . |
| 9 | One has to resort to Fraser McLuskey 's memoir for the explanation that the bodies were indeed R.A.F. and American crewmen , and for a moving account of their dignified burial by the Padre himself almost within sight of the enemy . |
| 10 | But the thing that I reflected on was here we were , into our third bombing year , and the mighty Eighth Air Force had come to our aid over thousands of miles of land and 2,000 miles plus of sea ; and they can come down through the clouds and land almost within sight of the place they were making for , with no navigation aids at all . |
| 11 | Both stared at it almost in horror for a moment , listened to the somehow insistent , angry ringing . |
| 12 | Cumberland now sent orders to the Lords Lieutenant of Lancashire , Westmorland and Cumberland to break up the roads , tear down the bridges and block possible escape routes by felling trees but by the time he reached Preston , on 13 December 1745 , when he was joined by the cavalry sent by General Wade from Newcastle , Prince Charles 's troops had reached Lancaster , 20 miles [ 32 km ] further north , though General Oglethorpe 's detachment was a mere three miles [ 5 km ] behind and almost in contact with the enemy rearguard . |
| 13 | The transfer of patients from St Wulstan 's to Powick , in order to bring about the closure of the former hospital , which housed a preponderance of younger long-stay patients , was planned almost in spite of the Development Project . |
| 14 | Do you see yonder cloud that 's almost in shape of a camel ? |
| 15 | She was almost on top of the river before she realised that this was where the path was leading , and here she found another seat from which she could see a boat or two plaiting lazy fans of rippling wake through the smooth water . |
| 16 | Today it was almost on top of the ridge at the crossroads . |
| 17 | After a quarter century of peace , broken by underfinanced wars against the Netherlands , England had undertaken a quarter-century of wars against France that ran almost without interruption from the day William III came to the throne until the death of Queen Anne . |
| 18 | Projects of this kind win reclaim in the literature of AI , but pass almost without remark in the parent humanities disciplines such as history and archaeology . |
| 19 | A MAN beat a lone woman hiker almost to death with a rock after she turned down his sexual advances , a court heard . |
| 20 | At the end of my stay I felt almost at home in the country and the language . |
| 21 | Still others were suggested by a casual reading of someone else 's research paper in the train home one evening , or by a talk heard almost by chance at a conference . |