Example sentences of "was almost [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rostov was accustomed to his aide 's height — no Manchu was taller than one hundred and fifty centimetres — his colour , a unique golden yellow which was almost metallic in skin tone , and his oddly lengthened features . |
| 2 | Dr Helen Martini , Chairman of the Action Committee , was almost speechless with anger . |
| 3 | She was almost speechless with anger now . |
| 4 | Andrew dismounted , trying to ignore the fact that her body was maturing in a way which made his blood race , and that she was almost ripe for love-making . |
| 5 | She was almost weak with relief . |
| 6 | He was holding her very close , but his body was almost weak with relief against her . |
| 7 | The care given to the sowing of the barley by the East Anglian husbandman was almost akin to veneration . |
| 8 | She was almost abject with gratitude to Drew who 'd insisted she use his Land-Rover as her base , and who 'd come up specially that morning to invite her to lunch and to watch the match with him and Sukey . |
| 9 | They started to disagree over the clothes Ace insisted on buying her until she was almost overcome with embarrassment . |
| 10 | Sybil Bliss was almost incoherent with excitement , her voice rising and falling in a series of breathless peaks and troughs . |
| 11 | Apart from the children immediately below , the scene was almost devoid of movement . |
| 12 | Like Winckelmann and Hölderlin , many later Hellenists felt those favourite qualities to be best represented in the literature of the mature classical period from Sophocles to Plato ( roughly 450 to 350 ) , which was almost exempt from criticism . |
| 13 | Even her appearance had softened ; the outline of her face was thicker by a hairline and her skin , tanned to a dark , honey colour , was almost luminous with health . |
| 14 | At a time when change was almost synonymous with evil , or at least decline , this was indeed provocative . |
| 15 | Once I was outside , however , I saw that the sky was almost free of cloud and the moon had set . |
| 16 | Dekko was almost dead with relief at how lightly he had escaped . |
| 17 | Robyn was almost ill with excitement and outrage . |
| 18 | Sally was triumphant , but by the time Saturday came she was almost sick with excitement and apprehension . |
| 19 | A special 1:25 000 map of the Shelve inlier of Precambrian to Ordovician rocks was almost ready for publication at the end of the year . |
| 20 | His youngest daughter was almost ready for burial , her body emptied , dried out , repacked , decked out for the long night , bandaged in the finest linen with the scarab placed over her heart , and laid in her case of painted cedarwood . |
| 21 | The EWGM probe was almost insensitive to gamma radiation ( only about 0.3% of the radiation detected by the scintillation probe was detected by the EWGM probe ) , whereas the scintillation probe also picked up beta radiation ( about 20% of the counts detected by the EWGM probe ) . |