Example sentences of "'d [verb] almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd done it again , she thought morosely , yet for a while , back there in the field , she 'd felt almost like her old self , the person she had been before Ryan had come into her life . |
| 2 | Oh , it was true that Dad and Charles had joined forces with Lucy in a deafening chorus of encouragement , to such a degree that she 'd felt almost piqued by their eagerness to be rid of her . |
| 3 | And I went to the video edit and they 'd used almost everything from the sexy take , it was really over-the-top , ’ she sighs . |
| 4 | Very occasionally she would come and tell me that it had been left so immaculate that she 'd had almost nothing to do and instead would remove some of the dust in the melin for us . |
| 5 | A lovely time , ’ she added , realising she 'd had almost three lovely hours of afternoon time too . |
| 6 | She 'd thought almost exactly the same , reversing the relationship . |
| 7 | He 'd sounded almost taunting , yet as she gazed up at him , and he smiled , she pushed the doubts aside . |
| 8 | He 'd known almost nothing . |
| 9 | Lucy had been saying nothing , letting him speak without interruption ; he 'd seemed almost to forget that she was there , but now he fell silent as if the vividness of the memories inside his head had made the words somehow redundant . |
| 10 | She 'd left almost nothing out , although she 'd downplayed Christine 's reappearances . |
| 11 | The ‘ stuff ’ in question was Bob Ivie 's Hawaiian special ; between them they 'd managed almost to empty the bowl that Wayne had sneaked out . |
| 12 | They 'd revolved almost entirely around the encounter with the assassin . |