Example sentences of "almost as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So pale , almost as if one can see through your skin . ’ |
| 2 | It was almost as if nothing that happened to children could surprise them any more . |
| 3 | The alternative to this has amounted to a reaffirmation of historicism almost as if nothing had happened . |
| 4 | It looked mishapen in this light , almost as if something was eating away at it . |
| 5 | They came towards the seated group cautiously but without hesitation — almost as if their entrance had been prearranged . |
| 6 | It is almost as if what the ego is subjected to by the superego in clinical depression is what the state does to the individual in totalitarian states , namely , it punishes the self with renunciation of instinctual drives , with reduced self-esteem and with a curtailment of its competence and freedom of activity . |
| 7 | Almost as if her body did not find it natural to bear a child . |
| 8 | She threw up until the nausea passed , just as it always did if she drank alcohol , but now it was almost as if her body already knew alcohol was bad for the tiny life growing inside her . |
| 9 | Clare remembered how she had seemed at first to be constrained in all her movements and jerky , almost as if her stammer manifested itself through her body as well . |
| 10 | Several inches of intricately patterned knitting hung from her needles , she saw with satisfaction , almost as if her fingers had worked independently while she listened . |
| 11 | It is almost as if we are confronted here by a replication of the poor Tom described in Ackroyd 's novel by another poor Tom of later times . |
| 12 | It is almost as if we are dealing with quite another God . |
| 13 | We are left talking to each other almost as if we had met before . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's almost as if we think subconsciously well we 've got that little bit extra , let's go for it . |
| 16 | We resumed conversation almost as if we had never left off . |
| 17 | Almost as if we can go on forever if that 's how it 's got to be . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He just recorded them , almost as if they were playing live , ’ he says . |
| 20 | When we looked out the sea-gulls did seem to be weaving in and out and making rather strange but happy sounds — almost as if they were a bit tipsy — and as it turned out , such was the case . |
| 21 | It is almost as if they were lent to us for their infancy and formative years , and are then entirely free to go their own way . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A surprising number have tales which suggest some form of ‘ activity ’ , almost as if they were alive , a strange thing on the surface , as stones are the archetype of solid , unmoving form . |
| 24 | It 's almost as if they were looking to make themselves the most hated and hunted men on earth . ’ |
| 25 | It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants — but only the day before yesterday , they were . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's almost as if they 've been told to keep their distance . ’ |
| 27 | Alpha appears when they are performing the most demanding tasks , and disappears altogether when less is demanded of them and their eyes are closed — almost as if they were drifting into a light sleep . |
| 28 | They intrigued him immeasurably , almost as if they were rare and unusual animals or birds , although at first he was often too shy to speak in their company . |
| 29 | It was almost as if they considered him to be as much a victim of his government as they were of theirs , as if he could no more be held responsible for Reagan 's actions than they could for Gaddafi 's . |
| 30 | The footsteps behind her seemed to be hurrying , almost as if they were trying to catch her up . |