Example sentences of "[noun sg] she almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Robert Forbes was introduced to Lorna Lewis he was free , rich and forty-one ; his hair had turned almost completely white and he was the perfect partner for a beautiful actress , eighteen years old , who was so full of ambition she almost trembled with it . |
| 2 | When Philippa arrived outside the pub she almost felt ashamed of her approval and excitement and admiration of the evening before . |
| 3 | Olive had been expecting so many horrors that hearing the question she almost laughed with relief . |
| 4 | She went towards the house to say goodbye to Stella , and as she turned the corner of the building she almost collided with Luke . |
| 5 | But as Ruth came out of the basement , all she was struck by , quite irrelevantly , was his likeness to Jake ; for an instant she almost thought it was Jake , standing there . |
| 6 | For a moment she almost hated him . |
| 7 | For a moment she almost pitied the police , who would not find it easy to get a straight tale from any of its members . |
| 8 | For a moment she almost lied to him and told him he had brought her nothing . |
| 9 | For a weak moment she almost relented . |
| 10 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
| 11 | It was laughable , really , but when she looked back on her nervous apprehension regarding his overwhelming sexual magnetism she almost felt like weeping with frustration . |
| 12 | As Bernice entered the refectory she almost bumped into the Doctor . |
| 13 | For the first time she almost seemed to see her father . |
| 14 | Despite the blistering heat she almost ran along the towpath . |
| 15 | In fact she almost expected them to accuse her of causing the conscience-prodding dip into their pockets . |