Example sentences of "[pron] always seemed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard to tell , cos I always seemed to be awake , but then I remember waking up with a jump when this voice comes over the loud speaker . |
| 2 | He was certainly an attractive man , with bright , smiling eyes and a face which always seemed to be on the point of laughter . |
| 3 | Not so popular was the experimental survival section of the course which always seemed to be carried out in extremely inclement weather with a helicopter helping to increase the discomfort of tossing about on a life raft in Plymouth Sound . |
| 4 | I could wish , incidentally , that Eliot had retained the original title of Wan na Go Home , Baby ? which always seemed to me exactly right . |
| 5 | Josh was still bewildered by the sudden change in living standard from California sun and the constant care of cheerful Kathy ( now working for another family in nearby Markham Square ) to the stuffy flat in Pimlico where his babysitter , Mrs Gooden , a retired cook , watched over Josh and her other six little charges , one of whom always seemed to be bare-bottomed and on the potty . |
| 6 | If she ever saw her , she thought worriedly ; she always seemed to be rushing off somewhere — and then she jumped when someone tapped on the door . |
| 7 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 8 | Joan Halton is disturbed by an old guilt related to the underlying resentment and fury she felt in respect of her younger sister who always seemed to be allowed to come first . |
| 9 | I remember some other kids , a girls ' dorm , green-painted walls with a red border half-way up , a stiff roller-towel next to a wash-hand-basin , the scent of carbolic soap , hugs from a kind , laughing lady with large arms and the comforting smell of B.O. , and a small , quiet , wiry man who always seemed to be sweeping and winking . |
| 10 | The closing of the launderette had given rise to a case in the County Court , in which Edward and she had been held not to blame , but had been conscious of the contempt of their solicitor , who always seemed to be in a great hurry . |
| 11 | . We always seemed to be lucky in that way . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , he was very generous to all his friends , but we always seemed to be in the wrong line . ’ |
| 13 | Everything always seemed to be crap for actors and you just had to put up with it — while the present corruption continued . |
| 14 | So they worry , and look back with longing to the good old , bad old days , when there always seemed to be a kind and sturdy neighbour nearby who was willing to pop in to lend a hand to the elderly and disabled , in the closer-knit communities of their youth . |
| 15 | I ca n't ever recall even meeting a priest when I was at United , though there always seemed to be plenty of them around . |
| 16 | This worried me , because there always seemed to be a few mosquitoes flying around house . |
| 17 | But there always seemed to be something else to be done about the farm . |
| 18 | Miss Ellis ' eyebrows launched into the twitchy dance they always seemed to at the mention of the words , ‘ my mother . ’ |
| 19 | They always seemed to be beyond the next corner or in the next room . |
| 20 | I had to speak to accountants , asking for information and so on , and they always seemed to be out at lunch , whether it was 10 in the morning or five in the afternoon . |
| 21 | Perhaps Bidault , on a visit to the US , gave the best idea of French intentions when he said that Marshall Aid would make it possible for France ‘ to avoid the abandonment of French positions ’ and even where there were the generous intentions that the US had hoped for , one way or another they always seemed to be frustrated . |
| 22 | People who did n't like him said he was very sarcastic , but he always seemed to me to be a most sensitive and competent man . |
| 23 | When he was well , he always seemed to be in demand and was proud to have worked on the Salisbury Cathedral restoration in the 1860 s , carried out under the direction of the great Victorian architect , Sir Gilbert Scott . |
| 24 | He always seemed to be picking on me . |
| 25 | And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence . |
| 26 | He always seemed to be on the move … |
| 27 | He always seemed to be ringing from a callbox , on grounds that the walls in his office had ears . |
| 28 | The effect was that he always seemed to be smiling . |
| 29 | He was clever in a bubbling , sideways way that Masklin distrusted ; he always seemed to be bottling up excitement about something , and when he spoke the words always rushed out , with Nisodemus putting ‘ ums ’ in the flow of words so that he could catch his breath without anyone having the chance to interrupt him . |
| 30 | He always seemed to be hanging about , keeping a watchful eye on them . |