Example sentences of "'d almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd almost lost her garden of paradise in heat and haste and desire . |
| 2 | ‘ It was heart-breaking — she looked so frail , I felt as if I 'd almost lost her , ’ says her mum . |
| 3 | We 've been back together for so long I 'd almost forgotten about it . |
| 4 | I 'd almost got the feeling he was attached to me , or maybe I was attached to him . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd almost given you up . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd almost reached the door when suddenly a gunshot sounded , shattering the stillness . |
| 7 | When at last I looked up we 'd almost arrived at the village . |
| 8 | They 'd almost reached the place where the party was , but she told the driver to keep going . |
| 9 | He 'd almost learned it from her . |
| 10 | He 'd almost forgotten that he was looking for her . |
| 11 | I 'd almost forgotten why I came . |
| 12 | He 'd almost decided to quit because the recording equipment could n't handle the volume that Eric was playing at . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd almost given you up , ’ said Emlyn , half nettled , half intrigued . |
| 14 | She 'd almost forgotten — almost forgotten everything except Fand . |
| 15 | Adam looked ashen , sick , gripping Undry as if his life depended on it ; and Ruth knew he 'd almost killed her just then . |
| 16 | He 'd almost forgotten about him . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd almost forgotten . |
| 18 | Then Clare was vexed that he 'd almost made her laugh . |
| 19 | I 'd almost given up hope that you 'd ever see me as a girl … a woman . |
| 20 | She 'd almost started out , but she was stopped by a touch on her arm . |
| 21 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 22 | The driver banged on his horn but Gregson drove on at speed , unconcerned by the accident he 'd almost caused . |
| 23 | Carson realised with a guilty start that he 'd almost wandered uninvited into the bedroom , all his attention on the conversation outside . |
| 24 | He leaned across with the bottle , and she realised that she 'd almost drained her glass at the first attack . |
| 25 | I 'd almost fallen asleep while Uncle Hamish had been droning on . |
| 26 | One day , on a long walk , he 'd almost literally bumped into Fergus Urvill , crouching in a hide up amongst the folds in the hills , waiting with telescope and .303 for a wounded Sika deer . |
| 27 | I 'd almost forgotten about them . |
| 28 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Sit down , Willie , ’ he said to Noolan who was so deep in thought he 'd almost walked past the table . |
| 30 | I 'd almost forgotten it was so near Christmas . |