Example sentences of "she almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | She almost pouted . |
| 2 | She almost parted her lips , then drew back . |
| 3 | Olive had been expecting so many horrors that hearing the question she almost laughed with relief . |
| 4 | She does not need nurses in uniform , she almost shouts : just because she is disabled , it does not mean she is medically ill . |
| 5 | She almost offered herself for the fight , the surrogate , the already-victorious . |
| 6 | She almost wished she would . |
| 7 | Even so she almost got away with it , and four times had game point . |
| 8 | She almost expected him to salute . |
| 9 | She had not meant to say it out loud , but now that she had , she almost explained . |
| 10 | She stared at the floor , turning pink and feeling so confused that she almost missed what Mr Hollins was saying . |
| 11 | And then she almost panicked herself . |
| 12 | But when she swallowed , the first mouthful of crisp apple hurt her throat so much she almost cried . |
| 13 | But her energy gnawed at her so ; her nature was so strong and vigorous , and her loneliness and boredom so intense , that she almost ate visitors up , so that they seldom went again . |
| 14 | Sometimes , when Wilson had gone into the garden to smoke his pipe , she almost confided in me . |
| 15 | She almost turned away … . |
| 16 | At first she thought it was one of the old ones and she almost wiped it out . |
| 17 | Even though she almost wholly accepted who Tammuz was , if only as an abstract , she still found it very difficult to look upon him as her father in flesh and blood . |
| 18 | When I congratulated the poor girl , she almost fainted . |
| 19 | She was so shocked at herself she almost lost the advantage . |
| 20 | She almost ran to the door . |
| 21 | ‘ If I were married , ’ she almost screamed at him , ‘ I would n't send my child out to work if my husband was fit and well . ’ |
| 22 | He said , ‘ You 're a natural , ’ and she almost smiled at the compliment . |
| 23 | She almost crumpled as the full rage of thunder exploded over the meadow and was still fifty yards short of the cabin when the squall hit . |
| 24 | He walked so fast she almost had to run to keep up . |
| 25 | The punchline actually brought tears to her eyes and caused Isa Peebles to laugh so hard she almost fell off her stool . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She would not be drawn out to talk about her work , to which she almost never referred without the adjective ‘ menial ’ . |
| 28 | By the time Robert Forbes was introduced to Lorna Lewis he was free , rich and forty-one ; his hair had turned almost completely white and he was the perfect partner for a beautiful actress , eighteen years old , who was so full of ambition she almost trembled with it . |
| 29 | She almost cried out to him to free her . |
| 30 | She almost smiled as she imagined the touching scene . |