Example sentences of "almost [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That , and the mild hysteria that a tiny audience always engenders , got Charles going too , and the pair of them were almost paralysed by laughter . |
| 2 | She peered over the bag of groceries clasped to her bosom and was almost consumed by envy . |
| 3 | He told Rufus to drive a bit more slowly and this time he spotted the six-foot-wide gap in the hedge with , on the right-hand side , almost hidden by cow parsley growing up and elderflowers hanging down , the wooden box on legs with its hinged lid into which Hilbert's-mail and newspapers and milk had been delivered . |
| 4 | Today the intermingled old streets and waterfront are almost suffocated by grain warehouses . |
| 5 | Although the final decision was with Cabinet , it would be most unlikely that they would overturn the views of a committee which had spent a number of weeks going through the proposals almost line by line — particularly given that half the Cabinet were on the committee and the Prime Minister was in the chair . |
| 6 | In inside out patches , channel activity increased fivefold during depolarisation , ion substitution experiments confirmed that the channels were highly selective for K , and channel activity was almost abolished by removal of Ca 2 or addition of 5 mM Ba . |
| 7 | and if you take a film of of erm Hitler and er people of that ilk in the second world war and you analyse almost frame by frame you 'll see that and count the number of non-symmetrical hand gestures you will find that they 're quite high as a percentage . |
| 8 | She took a sip of the dark , bitter tea but , almost overcome by nausea , she hastily put down the mug and covered her mouth with a handkerchief . |
| 9 | Yet , when the oriental came at him , the man moved so swiftly that he was once again almost taken by surprise . |
| 10 | Castle , who introduced himself as ‘ that other castle almost destroyed by smoke ’ as a reference to his battle against lung cancer , handed out 49 certificates in all — to class winners as well as the gold winners . |
| 11 | Despite the much vaunted heating and ventilating system of the new police headquarters the windows of Wycliffe 's office were almost obscured by condensation and the air had a clammy warmth which reminded him of the tropical house at Kew . |