Example sentences of "and seemed [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urquhart inclined his head and seemed to listen to the wind . |
| 2 | But he could not resist holding the bird up to his desk lamp , so that the light ran across the surface and seemed to flow over the edges in crimson flame . |
| 3 | The question , light , whispered , had barely left her lips and seemed to tremble in the air between them , when with a swift unexpected movement , just as she lifted her hand to touch his face , he caught her wrist . |
| 4 | Mr Beckenham looked about the altered room , and seemed to take in the improvements in one swift glance . |
| 5 | From his hotel bedroom the sea was a great waste of dirty grey flecked with white , the clouds were ragged and seemed to race across the sky and , as he watched , a great fountain of spray shot up from the base of the little promontory on which the hotel was built . |
| 6 | Bigwig was lying across the wire , which came out under his belly and seemed to disappear into the ground . |
| 7 | He covered his mouth with his hand , and seemed to swell with the oxygen he drew in . |
| 8 | Unlike both his younger brother and sister , who clearly suffered from an inability to form stable ties with other people and seemed to depend on the bottle to bolster their self-assurance , Valentin 's reputation was almost that of a good prince in a fairy-tale . |
| 9 | He stood up and seemed to roll on the balls of his feet . |