Sentence examples for he almost turned from inspiring English sources
His engines were balky, and he almost turned back, but soon he was over the Yamato with his torpedo planes.
He almost turned down his Philharmonia big break because he was called the morning after a late night with friends in London.
Given his heroics in the 1-0 defeat by Real Madrid earlier in the month, it was no more than the Ivorian deserved, although he almost turned Mihail Alexandrov's low cross past his own goalkeeper.
Mr. Valmiki, who has a day job as an engineer at an Indian government defense factory, said he almost turned down the invitation to attend the festival because he thought it would be too exclusive.
Mr. Liu later says he hesitated — he almost turned back during a change of planes in Tokyo — but returned to China that May as demonstrations spread across the country, paralyzing the leadership in Beijing.
Amazingly, he almost turned it round in the return leg in Glasgow - Celtic winning 4-0 to narrowly miss out on progressing in the competition.
Although he initially almost turned the series down, Gardner subsequently wrote fourteen original novels and two novelizations of the films between Licence Renewed in 1981 and COLD in 1996.
The writer describes a gallbladder operation he performed which almost turned deadly when he mistook the main bile duct for the gallbladder duct.
"Everything he has touched has literally almost turned to gold on every level.
"That almost turned out to be a disaster," he told the News-Herald.
"Don almost turned white".
