Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] almost [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glanced at her almost as if he was reading her thoughts . |
| 2 | The boy looked sick and white and terrified and the other two were staring at him almost without blinking , as though they were sucking out his life through his eyes . |
| 3 | Both stared at it almost in horror for a moment , listened to the somehow insistent , angry ringing . |
| 4 | The others looked at him almost in disbelief , but I could see that he had been thinking very carefully . |
| 5 | He was smoking a cigarette — something he rarely did outside his office — and he looked at it almost with distaste . |
| 6 | It could have been that he was overcome with shyness , for he gazed at her almost with awe and stumbled over his words . |