Example sentences of "[verb] almost [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guest list for Anne 's wedding , at Crathie Church , has varied almost day by day . |
| 2 | A big bream is a very deep-bodied fish and would have to stand almost tail to surface to pick a bait direct from the bottom with its lips , which I know they do when they are in that kind of mood . |
| 3 | Squirrels and martins moved in the trees , and once they came almost face to face with a boar . |
| 4 | In this case , in addition to a writ issued by the Derbyshire County Council , the former leader of the council , Mr. Bookbinder , has sued for libel and his action , which is based almost word for word upon the same allegations as those in the council 's statement of claim , continues . |
| 5 | So I have Posi the go-ahead , and we surged out through the Valve , coming almost face to face with the two ships . |
| 6 | From then on the relative UE and strength of each type varied almost month by month ! |
| 7 | There are sentences in ‘ Neo-Angular 's ’ speeches which are echoed almost word for word in the essays of T. S. Eliot and the letters of Evelyn Waugh . |
| 8 | Our experience of people in that condition is that they are not in a steady state so , rightly , the prescription must be altered almost day by day according to the pain of the patient . |
| 9 | She had advanced a step further towards him until now they were standing almost breast to breast . |
| 10 | Of the latter , one was dedicated to King Henry II of England in a prologue taken almost word for word from Bede 's preface to Ceolwulf at the beginning of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People . |
| 11 | However , the preamble to this convention reaffirms certain broad humanitarian principles of considerable potential relevance to the nuclear weapons issue , and inter alia it repeats almost word for word the terms of Article 35 of 1977 Geneva Protocol I , already quoted . |
| 12 | I noted , and we 've already had the flavour of it , in to some respect today , that initially you had almost unanimity of support from the District Councils er York City have changed their view erm and equally Hambledon are very luke warm , if I put it no more than that , er on the idea of a new settlement in the sense that they probably support the principle of the new settlement , but not in Hambledon . |
| 13 | Hall reveals through his examination of Colnaghi documents that Berenson 's recommendations at times ‘ follow almost word for word , Gutekunst 's own letters to Berenson ’ , suggesting that it is time for a re-examination of the role of dealers as well as the more famous advisers in influencing taste . |