Example sentences of "was almost [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so when Lacuna was screaming instructions to the androids , and the Doctor was almost hopping from foot to foot with anxiety , and the pale young man and the little girl were staring open-mouthed at the screens , Britta omitted to speak . |
| 2 | For one brief moment it felt as though she was almost drowning in ecstasy , and then she felt Ross removing his lips , cursing violently under his breath as he withdrew his arms from about her body . |
| 3 | Rose was almost weeping with fear and frustration . |
| 4 | Francis was almost weeping with anger and frustration . |
| 5 | He had been fiercely possessive , racked by an agony of passionate wanting and yet somehow retaining sufficient control to assert his mastery , denying her fulfilment , waiting until she was almost weeping with desire , as if he needed to hear her husky throbbing pleas confirming his dominion in the relationship . |
| 6 | She was almost crying with rage . |
| 7 | She was almost choking with despair , seeing that none of this was making a whisker of difference . |
| 8 | But she was almost choking with emotion . |
| 9 | Sally-Anne was almost choking between rage and fear . |
| 10 | He was almost dancing with joy . |
| 11 | Her hair was almost standing on end , but not for the world would she admit it . |
| 12 | She guessed he was almost bursting with pleasure … |