Example sentences of "almost [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet for a moment in the kitchen she thought she 'd caught a fleeting expression almost of smugness on his face , as though something had pleased him . |
| 2 | Clare noticed that her hair had been cropped shorter than before , so that it was almost like fur on her head . |
| 3 | And that one had to appear , like a spirit raised by necromancy , suddenly almost within grasp of his hand . |
| 4 | The final defeat of the Nez Perce — almost in sight of their goal — and their final surrender , inspired Joseph 's greatest adversary to befriend him . |
| 5 | The vigilant driver , seeing her white-clad body almost in front of his engine , applied his brakes and slammed shut the regulator . |
| 6 | However , some of the Holkham tenants , almost in reaction to their landlord 's introduction of the alien West Country breed , decided to combine their native Norfolk and Suffolk types as being more suitable to the region and it was their efforts which , by 1810 , produced by the first selectively bred combinations of the horned Norfolk meat types and the polled dairy Suffolk in the Norfolk and Suffolk Poll . |
| 7 | Altering the location at which the rat is put into the tank is almost without effect on its capacity to find the shelf . |