Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] seemed [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just seemed to get the worst of it . ’ |
| 2 | I used to wear a bra the same size as my mother 's , size 40 it used to be , but I just seemed to dry up completely . |
| 3 | And er I was n't eating right because I just did n't feel hungry I did n't bother about food I just seemed to keep going and keep going . |
| 4 | I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away . |
| 5 | Elaine : ‘ I like the idea of the outer cover but I never seemed to get her comfortable . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ One of the reasons you went to the cinema when I was a teenager was to pick up girls , but I never seemed to have any luck . |
| 7 | The baby nest I bought , a sort of quilted bag , was a waste of money because I never seemed to have the opportunity to use it . |
| 8 | It was totally demanding , I never seemed to have a free minute . |
| 9 | ‘ I never seemed to have time to do the ironing , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Although everyone somehow seemed to have been looking the other way at the time , the young man 's explanation was accepted and written down in his file to make it true . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , of course I did — and I can pop down to the church and see you come out , ’ she offered impulsively , which thankfully seemed to satisfy the other girl . |
| 12 | It was a shocking thing , no doubt , but compared with her future , which suddenly seemed to hold out enticing prospects of a new and exciting life , it had retreated into the background . |
| 13 | The plane loomed drunkenly above them like an abandoned toy , which only seemed to magnify the tragedy and their miraculous escape . |
| 14 | She loved the country life of the estate and could have been entirely happy were it not for Stephen 's habitual absences which only seemed to emphasise the constant presence of his mother . |
| 15 | The phenomenal rise in venereal diseases and the performance of abortions ‘ for social reasons ’ were two of the unintended consequences of sexual hedonism which nevertheless seemed to have little effect on sexual behaviour . |
| 16 | There she was , wearing a mac , a crimplene frock over her body which just seemed to hang like a cheese from her shoulders , a little woolly hat and NHS specs , and the inevitable shopping bag . |
| 17 | It was his left ankle which always seemed to cause problems . |
| 18 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 19 | It was still dominated by the long nose and wide mouth , also by eyes of an intense pale blue , which always seemed to focus sharply and penetratingly on whoever he was talking to . |
| 20 | Maybe , if she could squeeze a mink coat out of Maxie , it would help her towards the membership which always seemed to elude her by a vote or two , a vote strongly influenced , she feared , by Olga Stych . |
| 21 | Not for him the histrionics which always seemed to accompany a Mansell win last year . |
| 22 | The Soviet government , which once seemed to have recognised the danger of secrecy , evasion and falsehood , may now be slipping back into old ways , in even bigger matters than nuclear power . |
| 23 | Which came mercifully swiftly , in the shape of another devastatingly accurate straight left , and then a perfect right uppercut which hardly seemed to travel more than a foot , but which was delivered with such a force that it lifted Mike up on to his toes , before toppling him backwards in a heap at his elder brothers ' feet . |
| 24 | As she hurried upstairs to the bedroom , which still seemed to hold Leo 's presence , she tried not to indulge in daydreams that would in all probability prove to be no more substantial than the rainbows she 'd witnessed earlier . |
| 25 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 26 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 27 | A century before William Booth had seen the need of the " submerged tenth " of Britain whom nobody else seemed to care about and declared " These people are our people . " |
| 28 | Next to the court was Mr. Stone 's Grocery Shop which never seemed to do much trade — it opened late and closed early — the stock was limited so few people patronised it . |
| 29 | This power of inspiration and the remarkable gift of foresight , which never seemed to desert him , were his greatest attributes . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps it was just due to the way he 'd been sleeping lately , a restless , shallow sleep full of dreams which never seemed to work themselves out properly , leaving him half-enmeshed in their elaborate complexities even after waking . |