Example sentences of "[noun sg] seemed [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mouth seemed suddenly dry as she said , ‘ I 've promised , and I do n't like breaking promises . ’ |
| 2 | To my surprise , the newsagent seemed too afraid to speak , shaking , sweating and holding his palms up in refusal of my letter . |
| 3 | Outside was sunshine and jubilant birdsong ; inside the dining room , the smell of bacon and rattle of cutlery seemed comfortingly prosaic . |
| 4 | Similarly , important physicists on the Continent corresponded with him , and were amazed and delighted by his discoveries ; but the lines of force seemed somehow unscientific , a scaffolding that could be ignored when the building was completed . |
| 5 | It was true that none of the ones that sprang to mind seemed particularly adequate to Folly , but then Luke probably had n't even thought she might be jealous . |
| 6 | He believed that the greatest scientists should also be poets , for both recognized affinity , analogy and beauty ; and although to his biographer his mind seemed essentially Platonic , his greatest heroes were Aristotle , Linnaeus , Robert Brown and Goethe . |
| 7 | Oddly , the think-tank that seems closest to catching the next intellectual wave is the one whose collapse seemed most logical a year ago . |
| 8 | Their partnership seemed freakishly fortunate . |
| 9 | A tall thin man was already inside , choosing cigars , and although his figure seemed vaguely familiar , she did not recognize him until he turned to go . |
| 10 | I 've never been particularly good at chatting up women although I 've always liked women and sex , so the idea of cutting out all the small talk seemed both convenient and appealing to me . |
| 11 | The strip search seemed fairly pointless , inasmuch as they did n't go through my pockets . |
| 12 | Already it was becoming difficult to keep warm at night , and life aboard Water Gypsy seemed less appealing when you were cold and alone . |
| 13 | John Rowe Townsend comments ( 1967 , p. 159 ) that ‘ simply giving children pleasure seemed too frivolous an aim to most nineteenth-century writers ’ . |
| 14 | Even royal uncles traditionally drew the line at that , something which explains why Gloucester 's action seemed so shocking to contemporaries and , perhaps , why he got away with it so easily in the short term . |
| 15 | Even royal uncles traditionally drew the line at that , something which explains why Gloucester 's action seemed so shocking to contemporaries and , perhaps , why he got away with it so easily in the short term . |
| 16 | As it was the Muslim holy day , the tray seemed more loaded than usual . |
| 17 | This gay , trivial and frequently tedious little extravaganza seemed as old and dated as last year 's calendar . ’ |
| 18 | The light seemed very bright . |
| 19 | The ground and the weight seemed too much for him and he had retired from contention before the penultimate fence . |
| 20 | When he finally left the cast in 1963 , that friendship seemed as strong as ever . |
| 21 | ‘ The first fence seemed so small for him because he is so big , ’ the jockey recalled delightedly . |
| 22 | She smiled at the thought ; the next seven days to the interview seemed almost endless in the long hot summer of 1906 . |
| 23 | The middle-aged Frenchman 's interest in the fräulein seemed genuinely fatherly . |
| 24 | For Sara , the ceremony seemed curiously unrelated to herself . |
| 25 | However , the grandeur of the occasion impressed me and , as I was smaller than I am now , the boat seemed quite large . |
| 26 | The way things were going the enemy seemed very determined to push the Brigade off this high ground . |
| 27 | Yeah that 's , when I was reading the thing I said to you somehow the upstairs seemed much better . |
| 28 | At one time Lancashire 's reply seemed very likely to even less than that as Albert Ward , Sugg , Smith and Briggs were all back in the pavilion with only 21 on the board . |
| 29 | Her intimacy seemed completely impersonal , and he did rather like being appreciated for himself . |
| 30 | Last night 's intimacy seemed doubly incongruous in contrast to this fraught hostility . |