Example sentences of "almost [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said goodbye to Jenny at the garage and made her a parting present of the Brownie Annual , which left Jenny almost speechless with delight . |
| 2 | Dr Helen Martini , Chairman of the Action Committee , was almost speechless with anger . |
| 3 | She was almost speechless with anger now . |
| 4 | As she leaned forward to offer them her pullover bellied out and he caught a glimpse of her breasts , almost adolescent in size , but with large and prominent nipples . |
| 5 | Continuing in the same direction , Long Drop Cave may be seen at the base of a low cliff , and this is succeeded by a series of minor potholes known as the Eyeholes which seem almost friendly by comparison . |
| 6 | The man had to be supported by Wakelate 's arm ; he appeared almost witless with grief , turning a wide-brimmed hat in his hands . |
| 7 | ‘ Jeez , how on earth d' ya take a bath and how is your love life ’ were presumably part of the empathy process from Gerry and his audience almost comatose with voyeurism and in need of splints for drop-jaw . |
| 8 | Rostov was accustomed to his aide 's height — no Manchu was taller than one hundred and fifty centimetres — his colour , a unique golden yellow which was almost metallic in skin tone , and his oddly lengthened features . |
| 9 | They were almost right on top of her before they saw her . |
| 10 | When understood as our ‘ extra-somatic means of adaption ’ they have become almost defi-nitional of culture ( White 1959 ) . |
| 11 | She was almost weak with relief . |
| 12 | He was holding her very close , but his body was almost weak with relief against her . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , it has been wonderful , querida , ’ he agreed quietly , his eyes softening till they were almost hazel in shade . |
| 14 | What he chose to say , however , struck the fathers as unexceptional , almost clerical in tone . |
| 15 | I mean , some people have kind of butterfly minds , with butterfly behaviour , and they switch from being one type of person or another type of person almost minute by minute . |
| 16 | We 're off again , now wading almost waist-deep in water , stopping , starting , bumping into the man in front . |
| 17 | As she bathed him , soaping the fat little limbs with a slow , caressing movement almost hypnotic in nature , she told him how lost she felt , how she no longer knew who she was nor where she was and how all that mattered to her was him . |
| 18 | Once I was outside , however , I saw that the sky was almost free of cloud and the moon had set . |
| 19 | Fortunately , young children are almost free from fear . |
| 20 | He 's pretty straightforward and has a nice sense of humour — almost British in fact . |
| 21 | The early amphorae of the Kleophrades Painter are almost indistinguishable in style from those of Euthymides , whose pupil he must have been ; but he also favours the calyx-krater , something he owes to Euphronios 's example . |
| 22 | When the NAP ca n't take over an organisation or movement , it resorts to deception , creating a front group that is almost indistinguishable in name from a more broad-based and respected rival . |
| 23 | In an apparent effort to make Solaris 2.0 almost indistinguishable from Destiny , SunSelect last week announced the immediate availability of NetWare Sunlink software , for integrating Novell Inc NetWare networks with Sparc and Solaris environments . |
| 24 | Some are almost indistinguishable from desktop publishing systems . |
| 25 | The care given to the sowing of the barley by the East Anglian husbandman was almost akin to veneration . |
| 26 | Here , almost untouched by time , because it was regularly subsidised by the state and enthusiastically supported by the Danish monarchy , was the original French style of dancing from the late 18th and early 19th centuries , long since lost in Paris . |
| 27 | As it was difficult to convert the square-ended chancel into living accommodation and it was felt important to retain part of the church in its original state , this area was left almost untouched in order to operate as a multi-purpose ‘ community room ’ . |
| 28 | Almost numb with shock , Ruth struggled to fight back . |
| 29 | Shaken by the intensity of the way he was behaving , her lips almost numb with deprivation as he slid his hand into her hair , Sarella could only shake her head , no words possible . |
| 30 | Here we find songs which use the thirty-two-bar form but fill it with angular melody and tonally shifting harmony ( ‘ All the Things You Are ’ ; ‘ Body and Soul ’ ) or with polyrhythms ( ‘ Fascinatin' Rhythm ’ ) ; we find , too , a song like George Gershwin 's ‘ A Foggy Day ’ , which does not use a standard form , boasts a tune consisting almost entirely of leaps , rather than innocuous conjunct motion , and is structured with such motivic tightness as to be almost serial in method ( see Ex. 6.3 , p. 184 below ) . |