Example sentences of "almost [prep] if [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alternative to this has amounted to a reaffirmation of historicism almost as if nothing had happened . |
| 2 | We are left talking to each other almost as if we had met before . |
| 3 | We resumed conversation almost as if we had never left off . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry to say but I think that we 're talking about this education day at the beginning of October and I mean god knows we 've known this is coming for , it 's almost as if we 've got to the brink of , you know like lemmings just about to throw ourselves off the cliff and we do n't know why we 're going to do it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants — but only the day before yesterday , they were . |
| 8 | It was almost as if they had been hired to give the tourist a suitable first impression of the Eternal City . |
| 9 | Almost as if they had been awaiting the signal of an extra moon , they now took their prancings into a more intense phase . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's almost as if they 've been told to keep their distance . ’ |
| 11 | It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone . |
| 12 | It 's almost as if you have to convince yourself that you did n't do it . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She could not refuse him , accordingly , and did not ; but more and more it was almost as if she had given in to Mr Poole 's demands ; one man was much like another . |
| 15 | She stopped abruptly , almost as if she had metaphorically clapped a hand over her mouth . |
| 16 | It was almost as if she had forgotten how to . |
| 17 | When he spoke , it was almost as if she had put the words in his mouth . |
| 18 | If she found it stretching credulity that a meeting between them was n't inevitable she 'd always fiercely denied to herself that she had any interest in seeing him again , so why should she be feeling so shivery and hot , almost as if she had a fever ? |
| 19 | Robbie shivered suddenly , almost as if she had encountered the aura of one of these sad ghosts . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ’ I still have my doubts , ’ she said , almost as if she 'd heard my thought . |
| 23 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 24 | It was almost as if he had chosen this quiet tunnel in a relatively quiet station so that he could sing to himself undisturbed , carry on singing without having to admit to himself that this was a hopeless task , that he was n't going to get anything . |
| 25 | It was almost as if he had found his raison d'être because beforehand he had shown little motivation to find conventional employment . |
| 26 | Wishart was waiting for him , sitting behind his long , polished table almost as if he had not moved since Corbett saw him last . |
| 27 | He was evasive about Rob too ; almost as if he had n't wanted to talk about him . |
| 28 | Rebecque , staying close to his master , gravely inspected one of the cannon almost as if he had never seen such an object before , then , suddenly afflicted by hay fever , he sneezed . |
| 29 | It was almost as if he had said — ‘ This man is a bit groggy ; let's dispose of him ! ’ that is how it appeared tome at the time , too . |
| 30 | It was almost as if he had something to hide . |