Example sentences of "almost [prep] [conj] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1	So pale , almost as if one can see through your skin . ’
2	Almost as if we can go on forever if that 's how it 's got to be .
3	It seemed almost as if she would have to side with Ianthe against the anthropologists , and this was not at all what she had intended .
4	She spoke almost as if she could read his mind .
5	‘ When Señor Mitchell gets back I would like us all to have a nice little trip , ’ she announced , sitting and smiling round almost as if she could see them .
6	She found his ‘ return to the Church ’ peculiarly disconcerting , almost as if he might be going to become a clergyman himself .
7	You can see into the mind of a normal , everyday man who has somehow become a murderer , he works in a way which is hard to understand , as everything he does is due to his obsession , which makes whatever he does perfectly acceptable to him , it 's almost as if he ca n't help it .
8	Sharpe was holding his own sword low beside his stirrup , almost as if he could not be bothered to fight .
9	She flushed , almost as if he could have known the part he 'd played in her extraordinarily sensual dreams .
10	Len , however , had his gaze fixed on David 's face and almost as if he could read his mind , and ignoring the other two , he said roughly , ‘ They 're not taking the case , are they , Doc ? ’
11	Travis closed his eyes in pain for a second , and then almost as if he could n't help himself he reached out a hand and pulled her to him , pressing a kiss on her hair .
12	It was almost as if he 'd hit some kind of a block .
13	In order to test my reaction , and before I had received my copy , Michael had typed it out and sent it to me , almost as if it might be one of his own efforts , and I had reacted with some reserve .
14	It sounds almost as if it will be too agonizing for them .
15	[ I was ] so oppressed by a sense of sin that I felt almost as if I should die !

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