Example sentences of "[vb past] almost to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The woman carried a bouquet of dried violets , their petals faded almost to lilac . |
| 4 | So intense was the pain in his neck , flexed almost to breaking point , that he almost forgot the wound in his chest . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Eleanor 's devotion to her husband amounted almost to veneration . |
| 7 | 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 . |