Example sentences of "[be] almost [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been almost razed to street level as the fire burnt all the wooden beams and the pews , but the lower hall was intact , water had seeped into the choir robing room and was spoiling the hymn books . |
| 2 | By the end of last year , when they had three of the children , he had been almost driven to distraction . |
| 3 | In spite of being almost tethered to Marguerite , Jenna enjoyed the trip and was rewarded later by being instructed in the cooking of some of the purchases . |
| 4 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 5 | Yet for all that John was almost lost to tennis — lawn-tennis , that is . |