Example sentences of "[adv] seemed [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun suddenly seemed to lose a little of its warmth . |
| 2 | In the case of Primo Nebiolo , the mere fact of being in Gateshead suddenly seemed to give the president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation a fluency in the English language he had not erstwhile possessed . |
| 3 | Violence suddenly seemed to colour the air between them , a red mist igniting . |
| 4 | Claudine suddenly seemed to notice the flustered looks that Jenna still had , although Alain was as cool as if his heated lovemaking had never happened . |
| 5 | Devlins Paddy did nothing special in his next three races but then suddenly seemed to get the hang of chasing over the barriers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The plane loomed drunkenly above them like an abandoned toy , which only seemed to magnify the tragedy and their miraculous escape . |
| 8 | This only seemed to exasperate the situation and it was some time before order was restored . |
| 9 | To her disappointment Nahum only seemed to visit the old and sick , and after the first few days he no longer took her with him , having suffered embarrassment each time he introduced his new wife whose youth could n't be disguised . |
| 10 | An emergency government spending package on Tuesday only seemed to encourage the sell-off . |
| 11 | He also bought a teaspoonful of tea from one of the artillery women for ten pounds , to be paid after the siege was over or , in case of death , by his executors to certain of her relations ; to lend substance to this rather nebulous arrangement which at first only seemed to excite the suspicion of the woman selling the tea , Fleury had drawn up an elaborate letter which began impressively : " To Whomsoever May Find This Missive , I , George Fleury , Being Then Deceased , " and which seemed to Fleury to give a certain legal solemnity to the transaction . |
| 12 | His voice only seemed to travel a few feet , then it stopped dead . |
| 13 | She tried to make a movement of resistance , but it only seemed to aid the passage of his touch . |
| 14 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 15 | There was so much untidy milling about , however , that in the confines of the tiny space they found it hard to organize themselves and eventually seemed to abandon the attempt . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | He already seemed to know a hell of a lot and taught me a lot about living , philosophy and music . |
| 18 | Punishments generally seemed to get a lot more severe whilst I was there . |
| 19 | Labour politicians , even those with a training in economics , were muddled about the issues , and generally seemed to favour the historic average cost principles , which also seemed to many at the time to be enshrined in the wording of the Act , which merely required the industry to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ . |
| 20 | Densan tended initially to limit managerial discretion much more and thus seemed to offer a better alternative for labour . |
| 21 | Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next : this was however an illusion , seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background , all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language . |
| 22 | It just seemed to form the basis of how it was going to be . |
| 23 | You … well , you just seemed to catch the rough edge of it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I just seemed to get the worst of it . ’ |
| 25 | Somehow he always seemed to give a thoroughly professional performance — quiet , controlled and extremely efficient . ’ |
| 26 | The holiday began tomorrow — in fact it had as good as started already , since Bill was staying at home — and holidays always seemed to point the problem more sharply . |
| 27 | Even with University College Cork — whom he captained to a Munster League title in 1985 — and with Dolphin , the man over in Cork Constitution always seemed to hold the edge . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Or was he addicted to the game Striker as a kid where the goalie adopted a similar position ( mine always seemed to do a Sprake and throw the ball back into my own net ) . |
| 30 | In the movies they always seemed to make the kidnapped party drive , but Maxim thought about Dann driving his — Maxim 's — car into the first acacia while he watched the gun , which seemed to have hypnotised him . |