Example sentences of "almost [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Almost for the first time since I was a child , ’ I thought , ‘ I am glad that it is my birthday . |
| 2 | Nadirpur looked at Chantal , almost for the first time . |
| 3 | Here , almost for the first time I can remember on disc , his vibrato , relatively rapid and even , becomes distracting in sustained passages , which will trouble some ears more than others . |
| 4 | Almost for the first time in her life she checked her wilful and impulsive self , even questioned a little a previous action or speech . |
| 5 | The vehicle had slowed to a halt almost opposite the front door but on the other side of the round lawn which constituted the carriage sweep . |
| 6 | that 's pulled down , you know almost opposite the United Reform Church . |
| 7 | It was a hundred almost of the grand stature of that which set up the historic victory here over West Indies a year ago , even if it was reached with a thick edge . |
| 8 | I was to see her years later , and talk much of Eliot , they were fellow-citizens of St Louis , Missouri , and almost of the same age . |
| 9 | Even in physique they were very much alike , both being thick in the shoulders and almost of the same colouring , except that Joe 's hair showed a black sheen whereas Harry 's was a dark brown , thick matt . |
| 10 | rachel says she learnt to ski with Chantelle at Gloucester five years ago … she has been out to the snow a few times this season and to be good you have to be able to get out there but this slope is good … and almost like the real thing |
| 11 | The only area which seems to have been devoid of buildings almost throughout the Roman period lay near the main centre of occupation in Birch Abbey and Evesham Street . |
| 12 | It has had over the years to be much restored , having been damaged three times by earthquakes and also outrageously neglected by the community of monks , who seem to have had an unnatural taste for litigation — one lawsuit between them and the locality lasted almost throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | He took the box without speaking and almost with the same movement dropped three and sixpence on the table . |
| 14 | As you approach the time of competition , begin ‘ interval training ’ in your aerobic band by working very hard to raise the pulse rate almost into the anaerobic threshold , then easing up to drop the pulse rate down into the lower third of the band . |
| 15 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 16 | ‘ This is something I should have done days ago ; something I 've wanted to do almost from the first moment we met , yet I 've fought against it every step of the way , just as you have . |
| 17 | Almost from the very beginning of the rearing process , parents and teachers are liable to find that these create a smothering blanket of difficulty , discouragement and disagreement . |
| 18 | But I knew that almost from the very start , ’ he said grimly . |
| 19 | In Stepney 40 per cent of the parishioners were Jews , and almost in the first week I was to become aware of something new , when the rector , Bertram Simpson , later Bishop of Southwark , suddenly said to me , ‘ Tomorrow is the Day of Atonement . |
| 20 | Prior to 1924 Nizan had been enveloped , cocooned , embalmed almost in the reassuring network of social relations on which the process of schooling is founded : hierarchical teaching and administrative structures , institutional discipline , academic discipline . |
| 21 | The contestation of meaning can be regarded as a fundamentally transgressive practice which can have a liberating effect on the reader — hence his emphasis on the value of the ludic aspect of fractured narrative which had a ‘ carnivalesque ’ role ( almost in the Bakhtinian sense ) of freeing the reader . |
| 22 | Almost in the same instant , George was back in his doorway . |
| 23 | But almost in the same instant she rejected that idea . |
| 24 | Writing by the art critic of a newspaper is self-evidently criticism , in parallel with the writing of music and theatre critics ; an exhibition can be treated almost in the same way as a performance . |
| 25 | When the Jesuit Benedict Göes passed by Khotan in 1603 he reported that the superior kind of jade was taken from rivers ‘ almost in the same way in which divers fish for gems ’ . |
| 26 | Quite , providing there was only one representative , and we were n't overburdened , providing it was clearly understood that they were there almost in the same way that a local member would be , to speak on a given item , and not to vote , then I do n't think we 'd have any objections , but it 's entirely up to the Committee , how do you feel ? |
| 27 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
| 28 | Then , almost in the same breath and contemplating all that space , he added , ‘ You 're not going to fill it up with furniture are you ? ’ |
| 29 | Yet almost in the same breath they stated that men should earn more because they had ‘ wives and bairns ’ to support . |
| 30 | In I Corinthians 2 he can say almost in the same breath that it is the Spirit who shows believers the deep things of God , and that we have the mind of Christ . |