Example sentences of "almost [prep] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " 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 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 ? ’
7 She flushed , almost as if he could have known the part he 'd played in her extraordinarily sensual dreams .
8 It was almost as if he 'd hit some kind of a block .
9 [ I was ] so oppressed by a sense of sin that I felt almost as if I should die !
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