Example sentences of "she had almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self ! |
| 2 | She had almost laughed . |
| 3 | Dashing into the kitchen now , she found Jessie standing at the table and squeezing a lemon into a glass and she had almost pulled her from the table towards the door before she managed to say to her , ‘ He 's … he 's downstairs in the yard . |
| 4 | How then Meg had wished , she had almost prayed , that one of them have a run-in with the tinker boy , he might wash their sins away . |
| 5 | She told Maggie about Betty Gilling and Peg Wooldridge , and how she had almost persuaded Nahum to adopt Corrie . |
| 6 | And then she had almost shouted at him : ‘ I 'm not ordinary ! |
| 7 | She recalled their encounter at Sleightholmedale , when she had almost killed him — and yet he still pursued her … |
| 8 | In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home . |
| 9 | She had married late , at a time she had almost given up hope of finding a husband . |
| 10 | In any case , she had almost forgotten , had n't she ? |
| 11 | She had finally cracked the ice with young Nick , and was now flexing and exercising muscles , as she madly twirled and twisted the rows of red-painted wooden men , that she had almost forgotten she had . |
| 12 | She had almost forgotten . |
| 13 | She had almost said ‘ us ’ . |
| 14 | And she had almost lost him by the attempted theft of his best boots . |
| 15 | By the time it came she had almost forgotten what the question was . |
| 16 | She had almost given up hope when she saw Meredith arm in arm with Grace and Bunny stepping off the kerb outside the Women 's Hospital . |
| 17 | An exhausted Miranda found that instead of having more time , she had almost a full-time job keeping present and future shareholders informed and happy : she prepared official reports , gave institutional and pension-fund presentations , attended city lunches , and made time in her overfilled schedule for the financial press . |
| 18 | For a moment there , she had almost felt like her old self again , or at least glimpsed the idea of what her old self had been . |
| 19 | She realized she had almost forgotten his offer of marriage on Norcombe Hill . |
| 20 | Like Han Ch'in that time , when she had almost bettered him at archery … |
| 21 | She had almost dropped the frying pan when she 'd heard that . |
| 22 | She had almost lost interest in the man but felt obsessed with the woman who had made such an impression in such a short time . |
| 23 | She had almost succeeded , when Cheryl looked up from her food . |
| 24 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 25 | She was n't cruel enough to tell him that there had been times when she had almost wished he had . |
| 26 | She ached inside , a sensation that had once been very familiar , but which she had deliberately suppressed over the last four years until she had almost forgotten what it had felt like . |
| 27 | She had been getting though the days — and nights — without too many problems , and there had been times when she had almost felt happy . |
| 28 | She had almost successfully deterred André from his plans to paint the town red with her , had vaguely told him that she would see how she felt when he issued the invitation , only to pour all her good intentions down the drain when this morning Piers had received a call from Nicole , and informed Alyssia offhandedly that he would be out for the balance of the day . |
| 29 | She had almost been tempted to explain away André 's remark , but her mind was working quickly . |
| 30 | But with part of her mind — the part that had stood back from their embrace — she was dimly aware that she had almost wanted to believe the worst . |