Example sentences of "almost [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Carco 's concierge came to clean his room the next day , she almost fainted at the sight of the nude picture hanging over his bed . |
| 2 | She almost fainted at the price . |
| 3 | You , looking through it and almost laughing at the . |
| 4 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 5 | Almost forgotten at the time of her death in 1975 , Madame Yevonde is now the deserving subject of a major retrospective organised by the National Portrait Gallery in conjunction with the Royal Photographic Society . |
| 6 | Again he paused ; then lifting the cup , he almost gulped at the tea before saying , No , they are both … dead . ’ |
| 7 | She was almost fainting at the aching torment of mounting pleasure aroused by the erotic caress of his mouth and hands . |
| 8 | When at last I looked up we 'd almost arrived at the village . |
| 9 | Bernice almost laughed at the comical expression of shock that passed momentarily over Molassi 's normally impassive features . |
| 10 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |
| 11 | Sometimes , she almost screamed at the time it took . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ You 're a natural , ’ and she almost smiled at the compliment . |
| 13 | Maggie almost cringed at the outright challenge but Candace said nothing at all . |
| 14 | One man with a bristling moustache that almost twitched at the corners cried , ‘ What 's it to be , Bill ? |
| 15 | And he concluded proceedings by almost screaming at an astonished Mrs Ann Clwyd who had been teasing him ; it was a burst of rage that rocked his high chair . |
| 16 | As families grow , the home appears to shrink proportionately until it seems to almost bulge at the seams . |
| 17 | And he almost groaned at the sight of her . |
| 18 | But on Channel 21 ( of our 42 ! ) when a Baptist minister was asked about homosexuality he almost frothed at the mouth : ‘ … an abomination … |
| 19 | Theda , listening to this venomous interchange in open-mouthed shock and dismay , almost jumped at the sudden attack . |
| 20 | Then , remembering , she almost gagged at the feel of his slimed cock under her hand , and the raw acid smell of his seed . |
| 21 | I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans , but as we bent over the café table it was easy to cast occasional surreptitious glances at his powerfully outlined sexual equipment under the much-rubbed fly , which seemed to be almost bursting at the seams . |
| 22 | you know , for a few days like that , I mean th it , it , I al almost shudder at the thought because there 's so much else I would , you know , prefer to do with five hundred pounds . |