Example sentences of "[noun sg] seemed [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A warm excited thrill ran through my veins , my blood seemed to give a bound , and then raced fast and hot along its channels . |
| 2 | The arrival of the ‘ Extremities , Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions ’ album seemed to provide an apt moment to compile the required discography and , thanks to help from readers John Elliot of Hawick and Mark from Sheffield along with Frank O'Donnell and his valiant cohorts at PolyGram , I 've managed to piece together what would seem to be a complete run-down . |
| 3 | Written in days before his present broken state , that last entry seemed to bear the marks of a flourish of self-satisfaction . |
| 4 | In the St George , Westminster , by-election in March 1931 the Empire Crusade candidacy seemed to exacerbate the divisions in the Conservative party which the press proprietors had initiated . |
| 5 | Sprake was exceptionally good at pulling off the nearly impossible saves but his mind seemed to wander a bit ( perhaps back to the Valleys ) . |
| 6 | An attempt was also made to take the vacuum pump body , but its weight and bulk seemed to defeat the thief , who nevertheless hid it in nearby bushes . |
| 7 | He could not see where Terry Place and his killing of William Egan , nor the idea that he might have been a poisoner , fitted into all this , perhaps nowhere , but his violence seemed to have a kind of a parallel in the Essex cases , which might illuminate his own problem . |
| 8 | It is clear that each Command had a basis for judging tour length ; for example , Bomber Command seemed to feature the number of sorties to establish this . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , tension seemed to tighten the air between them . |
| 10 | Then an icy wind seemed to fill the dining-room , and at the same time Mrs Hampton 's macaws began to scream . |
| 11 | The deliberate action seemed to pacify the German too . |
| 12 | For instance , heads of department seemed to take an unselfconscious view of leadership and of their management style . |
| 13 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 14 | It was pitch dark everywhere , and the whirr of the ceiling fan seemed to fill the silent bedroom . |
| 15 | ‘ The car seemed to turn a lot . |
| 16 | The car seemed to hang a moment in space . |
| 17 | But she had started to notice that Faye 's level of stress or unhappiness seemed to have an unusually dramatic effect on her blood glucose . |
| 18 | The ovoid seemed to project a kind of deadly aura and , as Rostov compared the black egg shape with his memory of the framework structures which he had encountered previously , he wondered if the designers had been striving consciously for the visual effect which they had achieved . |
| 19 | The research programme seemed to provide the stimulus for improvement around the country , particularly in academic libraries where many working parties were set up to deal with the problem . |
| 20 | The headline seemed to fill the stormy horizon . |
| 21 | Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time . |
| 22 | Either way , concentration seemed to require an enormous effort and forceful argument a better assembled set of thoughts than he currently possessed . |
| 23 | Her heart seemed to miss a beat , then began thumping heavily against her ribs . |
| 24 | Juliet 's heart seemed to give a little flutter as she answered , ‘ Half-day . |
| 25 | Once , the fight against communism seemed to unite the nation beneath the Black Madonna of Czestochowa , the Polish white eagle , and the memory of the martyrs of World War II and Stalinism . |
| 26 | The assumed humility seemed to have a soothing effect upon Major Tzann . |
| 27 | The climatic perturbations known as alminio seemed to occur every two to ten years . |
| 28 | After further discussion it was agreed that , due to the complexities of the regulations surrounding financial transactions , and the obligation to make regular returns to the headquarters about financial matters , investigation of the FI category seemed to offer the most potential for improvement . |
| 29 | Even her skin seemed to recall the touch of his hands , strong but tender . |
| 30 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |