Example sentences of "almost [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 2 | It is not the people who break the pattern of the Numbers stories , but God , for he responds almost exactly as he did at Meribah before . |
| 3 | It had been returned to him almost exactly as he had sent it , with no covering letter or word of explanation . |
| 4 | The one remaining club , Squires , over the water in Catford , shut almost exactly as I started the book . |
| 5 | Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photograph , although now there was a book open and face downwards on the patchwork quilt . |
| 6 | As she grew older her school friends — of whom there were a great many , since she was forced to change schools almost yearly as her parents flitted — sometimes expressed envy at her adventurous lifestyle . |
| 7 | Almost instantly as I sang , a trout rose and grabbed my tail fly , a size 16 Silver Butcher . |
| 8 | Weaver ran through the gap between the houses , waving his right hand almost uselessly as he snapped off a second shot at Bodie . |
| 9 | The silence between them seemed to lengthen interminably , and her nerves were stretched almost unbearably as she waited for his answer . |
| 10 | The Baronne 's gathering frown dispersed almost magically as she espied a flat be-ribboned box on the tray . |
| 11 | He smiled almost lazily as he studied her across the brightly lit room . |
| 12 | He glanced up at her almost respectfully as he poured himself some tea . |
| 13 | Griffith 's breakthrough came almost accidentally as he attempted to forge a career in a new industry about which he knew little . |
| 14 | These should be set out almost verbatim as they will appear in the offer document ; |