Example sentences of "almost as if [pron] [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE VERY first line of Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? - ‘ What a dump ! ’ — is spoken by the play 's feminine protagonist in a parody of the classic Bette Davis manner : an ( imaginary ) cigarette held imperiously at eye-level , eyes blazing like the headlamps of an automobile , bee-sting lips enunciating each word ( including the ‘ a ’ ) for absolutely maximum effect , almost as if they had been snipped out of a newspaper headline by a writer of anonymous letters . |
| 2 | At the base of these cliffs , almost as if they had been hewn in the rock by men , were three , four or five cave-mouths , chamber-like , as if they were a row of monastic cells in some monastery . |
| 3 | It was almost as if they had been hired to give the tourist a suitable first impression of the Eternal City . |
| 4 | Almost as if they had been awaiting the signal of an extra moon , they now took their prancings into a more intense phase . |
| 5 | One moment the forest was rich and lush , the next it had turned golden , then the leaves blew into the air , almost as if there had been an explosion . |
| 6 | It was perhaps less a prayer than a wish , in its final form ; but by the time the Queen went to bed that evening , it looked almost as if she had been heard . |
| 7 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
| 8 | He seemed calm , almost as if he had been expecting his deputy 's treachery . |
| 9 | She saw him scowl darkly as he scanned the page , and wondered for a few moments if perhaps , although he could speak her tongue almost as if he 'd been born in her country , he did not read English so well . |
| 10 | It was almost as if it had been surgically removed along with his appendix when he was a kid . |
| 11 | It was very strange , almost as if it had been timed to happen , but the social worker came and was set to take you away . |