Example sentences of "seemed pleased " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little old lady seemed pleased at this . |
| 2 | They all seemed pleased , as if I belonged ; but I knew I would leave them again before summer , would walk out of the brightly lit play , and go back to the shadows and solitude of fiction . |
| 3 | She seemed pleased that he did n't have an answer . |
| 4 | He seemed pleased to remind us of yet more evidence of Bouilland 's humming modernity , and took us out into the sun again . |
| 5 | The driver seemed pleased by the idea and the Feldwebel sat back in luxurious anticipation . |
| 6 | He seemed pleased when I told him how much I appreciated such poems as ‘ Cool Tombs ’ , ‘ The Hangman ’ , ‘ Kalamazoo ’ , ‘ Chicago — Hog Butcher ’ , and his later volume ‘ Good Morning , America ’ . |
| 7 | All I remember is that the King and de Craon were talking excitedly together and that de Craon seemed pleased . |
| 8 | He seemed pleased to help . |
| 9 | As mentioned before , Mains seemed pleased with the final choice and there have been only muted complaints from about the country — although it would be hard to be too critical 24 hours after a test was won 59–6 . |
| 10 | He had had a good day at the office and his head had not troubled him ; they seemed pleased with his work ; he had been looking forward to telling her about it over supper , and now this . |
| 11 | She seemed pleased with my reply and smiled that crafty smile of hers . |
| 12 | She seemed pleased to see him . |
| 13 | Jones even offered to let Pons use the neutron spectrometer for himself and remarked ‘ Pons seemed pleased with the offer . ’ |
| 14 | All his old friends seemed pleased to see me , and the place lived up to its name . |
| 15 | He seemed pleased that Slim had disappeared from the district 'cos Big Joe was never for tradin' in bairns . |
| 16 | Googol seemed pleased with himself . |
| 17 | Walking into the ISDN User Show at Wembley , North London the other day , the first four stands belonged to communications magazines : cynics might see this as evidence that the technology is still at the hype and talk stage , but most exhibitors seemed pleased by the degree to which visitors ' questions had progressed past the ‘ what is ISDN anyway ’ stage to the ‘ how much does this box cost ’ phase ; some 900 visitors attended on the first day , the second seemed rather busier and at some of the conference sessions , notably British Telecommunications Plc 's ‘ where are we now ’ presentation , it was standing room only … |
| 18 | He seemed pleased , satisfied , relieved , |
| 19 | He seemed pleased with the analogy . |
| 20 | I told him I 'd heard that , and he seemed pleased . |
| 21 | Instead I had to sit and watch him produce the belt , and although he seemed pleased enough with it the incident left me even more empty of joy than before . |
| 22 | He dined at three and fished with Burkett and his daughter until the evening light finally wilted , not to darkness , it was too northerly for that , but to that active dusk in which motes of light seemed pleased to elude the half-hearted grapplings of black night . |
| 23 | Stephen seemed pleased . |
| 24 | The villages seemed pleased to be photographed , and unused to tourists , treated me with benign curiosity . |
| 25 | As always , he seemed pleased to hear from her . |
| 26 | Donleavy seemed pleased with it , too . |
| 27 | She let him accompany her into the small lounge where the set was kept in segregation from the vocal and gregarious fishermen , and settle her in a comfortable chair , cheek by jowl with a single elderly lady , who seemed pleased to have company , and disposed to conversation . |
| 28 | But Luke seemed pleased . |
| 29 | Yet he — I — seemed pleased enough , and kept dribbling these words across the page . |
| 30 | She seemed pleased with the room . |