Shortly before half-time England finally had their first sniff of the goal-line when Brown set up Sean O'Loughlin to burst clear, but the Wigan player looked almost surprised to find himself in a threatening position, and by the time he passed to Michael Shenton, New Zealand had got defenders back.
So it puts the audience in the position of a kind of big brother or a doctor, observing this man almost trying to purge himself by ritually going through the story of Macbeth.
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Ignorant of the burden of expectation placed upon him, Stefan allows, indeed almost wills, himself to be trapped into reading out loud before a gathering of his mother's intellectual friends some poetry that he claims to have written himself.
Donovan, one of three guards Pitino made take advantage of the new 3-point line, became familiar with leading a team to the Final Four himself almost two decades later when he coached Florida to consecutive national championships.
Why would he speak about it now when he had kept it to himself for almost four decades?
Argenbright has almost always felt he needed to prove himself.
In fact, according to Hirsch himself, people on the left started to attack his ideas almost as soon as he had articulated them.
The stories about Revis' potential departure had become so consuming that after Idzik walked to the podium and introduced himself to reporters, he spent the next eight minutes talking almost exclusively about the star cornerback.
Martin Lukes, by contrast, has so much enabling technology that his ability to set traps for himself is almost limitless.
The lift of his face, his walk, his repertoire of gestures, the oddities of his lapses in expression onstage that she secretly recognized as himself appearing, became almost familiar to her.
He is almost back to his original station when suddenly he recognizes himself on a show about doctors.
Paul, who was found living in a children's home, looked so pained way back then, so deeply unsure of himself, that it was almost painful to watch him speak, and hard not to see him as a loner-to-be.
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The irony is that only a few months Lynas proved himself to be wrong in an almost literal sense when Greenpeace was found to have had a role in crafting a press release issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in May.
Almost beside himself with irritation, he told them all to mind their own business.
It was typical of Jordan, of the almost unique completeness of his game, that he willed himself to excel on defense as well as offense.
When the two men reached the wet part of the track halfway around the lap, Hamilton slid off, handing the lead back to Raikkonen, who almost immediately lost it again by sliding off himself.
In 1991 Sam Walton himself asked Donald to join him to run a small, almost experimental grocery division.
At one point, he gave a panhandler a chance to make himself scarce for the crime of vagrancy, which was almost un-Dredd-ful.
Back then, Morley used to worry so much about what might go wrong that he would almost make himself sick before a big game.
He was scheduled to start at Winnipeg on Feb. 24 but shut himself down for almost three weeks because the injury was causing spasms and numbness in his shoulder and arm.
"Batman has always thrived on reinvention and it was very exciting to look in a very fresh way at a character who is almost as iconic as Batman himself, " he says.
But in an indelible episode of the NBC sitcom, Warburton's David Puddy immortalized himself in the eccentric history of Devils hockey, to the point where, almost two decades after it aired, stray hockey fans still occasionally stop Warburton and quote lines back to him.
But in a strange twist, it seems almost certain that Mr Milosevic - who is himself standing trial in The Hague - will be elected to the parliament.
But despite calls for his head, Sir Martin not only hung on to his job, but negotiated himself a fat compensation package for rescuing a company he had almost killed.
Perhaps inevitably, given that the conference was held in Britain, a whole session was devoted to the meaning of David Beckham, captain of England's football team and almost a global brand himself.
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He expresses himself simply without being simplistic, and the purposefully slow rhythms of his prose almost command the reader to stop, think and, ultimately, listen.
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But the books they use are so detailed they almost read themselves, and there is no one a player like Tiger Woods trusts more to read a putt them himself.
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Ponting helped himself to successive boundaries off Harbhajan before Gilchrist provided two more off Kartik to finish the game with almost half an innings to spare.
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The trio headed Musa Obaid Amer, himself a former Kenyan now representing Qatar, over the line to maintain the African country's almost total dominance of the event.
If the House is still in Republican hands, even if he were to successfully navigate Taxmageddon he could easily find himself back in a situation like 2011 and 2012, when almost no bills moved forward.
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