Example sentences of "[verb] almost to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can I forget Johnny McCarthy whose humour , whose mimicry , whose abundant love of life on so many , on so many times seemed to diminish almost to extinction , those grinding moments of hopelessness . |
| 2 | There was a part of his mind filled almost to sickness with self-mockery , a bitter mockery grown out of the fear that was back with him now , mockery for the excellence of his seamanship . |
| 3 | Formerly plentiful on antarctic fringe and peripheral southern islands , they were hunted almost to extinction by commercial sealers during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 4 | There was a cotton quilt , faded almost to invisibility , upon the bed , Marcus 's summer jacket draped on a chair , a shirt folded up , shaving things grouped on a chest of drawers . |
| 5 | The woman carried a bouquet of dried violets , their petals faded almost to lilac . |
| 6 | She forgot her dream as she saw the blue eyes darken almost to black . |
| 7 | The confidence of this self-knowledge sounded a note of cockiness , amounting almost to elation , as he remarked over his shoulder : ‘ It 's tricky enough here . |
| 8 | He was shaken , almost physically , by an emotion far stronger than distaste and one of which he was half-ashamed ; it seemed to him both ignoble and in itself hardly more rational than the event itself What he was feeling was a revulsion amounting almost to outrage . |
| 9 | Yet , whenever she contemplated a resumption of the life she had enjoyed before her initial meeting with Johnny , she felt a rising panic and a disinclination amounting almost to hostility at the very idea . |
| 10 | So intense was the pain in his neck , flexed almost to breaking point , that he almost forgot the wound in his chest . |
| 11 | The danger with trying to shoehorn the IRA into this category is that the criminal justice system has had to be stretched almost to breaking point to accommodate them — Diplock courts , the abolition of the right of silence , rigged inquests , detention without trial , and so on . |
| 12 | During the 19th century Southern Ocean stocks of fur seals and elephant seals were similarly reduced almost to extinction . |
| 13 | Beside her Meg Dennison 's prettiness was diminished almost to insipidity and Hilary Robarts 's strong-coloured cotton looked tawdry . |
| 14 | On the way this time it rained , but despite his dragging cloak and the glum faces of the small train he took with him , Nicholas made the journey in a condition of numbness that amounted almost to happiness . |
| 15 | Eleanor 's devotion to her husband amounted almost to veneration . |
| 16 | On the one hand he turns almost to abstraction , ‘ a vast menace of despair ’ , as also to an image of the un-existence of evil , a ‘ huge shadow ’ which Gandalf tries to send back to ‘ nothingness ’ . |
| 17 | Late in life , having transferred his affections to the alsatian , Queenie , he became a professional bore over the superiority of animals to human beings , an obsession that led almost to derangement on the occasions when Queenie was cut by broken glass . |
| 18 | He 'd originally joined the service after his mother had been attacked and beaten almost to death in 1950 . |
| 19 | His eyes narrowed as he looked at her , and seemed to glow with fury , their brown tint lightening almost to gold . |