Example sentences of "[noun sg] almost to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 ? ’
2 A MAN beat a lone woman hiker almost to death with a rock after she turned down his sexual advances , a court heard .
3 Such training and preparation brought both me and my marriage almost to breaking-point .
4 Then I lay over a great slab of rock which warmed the water almost to bath-heat .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 I pulled the rubber almost to maximum and sent the ball-bearing and photograph hissing and spinning way out to sea .
9 But fear and anger tightened her throat almost to choking-point .
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