Example sentences of "[noun] almost to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emotion had darkened his eyes almost to black , shocking her , but otherwise he kept his expression rigidly controlled . |
| 2 | Layering suspense element upon suspense element , the episode builds up tension almost to breaking point as audiences ponder the big question : ‘ What lives in that city ? ’ |
| 3 | A MAN beat a lone woman hiker almost to death with a rock after she turned down his sexual advances , a court heard . |
| 4 | Such training and preparation brought both me and my marriage almost to breaking-point . |
| 5 | UK Agriculture and Fisheries Minister , John Gummer expressed outrage over the feast , claiming that " the world knows perfectly well that whalers have attacked stocks almost to extinction " . |
| 6 | Then I lay over a great slab of rock which warmed the water almost to bath-heat . |
| 7 | Depression flattens the voice almost to monotony ; movement is slowed , and a dejected facial expression is characteristic of many people when they are in a low mood . |
| 8 | It is a switchback journey with many ups and downs and one particularly steep descent almost to sea level where Loch Nedd bites deeply into the coastline . |
| 9 | Equally , however , if the only learning experience one encountered was in closely programmed format there would be no scope for those intuitive leaps and imaginative forays most of us remember , or for those times in which one pursues a sudden enthusiasm almost to saturation . |
| 10 | I pulled the rubber almost to maximum and sent the ball-bearing and photograph hissing and spinning way out to sea . |
| 11 | But fear and anger tightened her throat almost to choking-point . |