Example sentences of "but [pron] seemed [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They had the highest scorer and won more games — but everyone seemed to enjoy the evening .
2 Her privacy had been penetrated , but she seemed to accept the inevitability of this .
3 All his goals were well enough taken , but he seemed to have the David Platt ‘ ball magnetism in a goal scoring position ’ phenomena .
4 His voice was hoarse , like a whisper , but it seemed to fill the room .
5 It was obviously written as encouragement to the soldiers and families separated during the long years of the Second World War , but it seemed to express the yearning that so many young men must have felt when they were far from their families , desolate and frightened :
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