Example sentences of "almost as if they [verb] 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 | ‘ It 's almost as if they 've been told to keep their distance . ’ |