Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 4 | . We always seemed to be lucky in that way . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , he was very generous to all his friends , but we always seemed to be in the wrong line . ’ |
| 6 | Miss Ellis ' eyebrows launched into the twitchy dance they always seemed to at the mention of the words , ‘ my mother . ’ |
| 7 | They always seemed to be beyond the next corner or in the next room . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He always seemed to be picking on me . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He always seemed to be on the move … |
| 15 | He always seemed to be ringing from a callbox , on grounds that the walls in his office had ears . |
| 16 | The effect was that he always seemed to be smiling . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He always seemed to be hanging about , keeping a watchful eye on them . |
| 19 | well he always seemed to me to be a bit of wise guy |
| 20 | Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ? |
| 21 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 22 | Although Piers Place was the most beautiful house I had owned or ever would own , it always seemed to be in need of structural repairs , there was a large attic floor which we did n't need ourselves and yet were disinclined to furnish for renting out , and the traffic on the main road outside seemed to increase with every year . |
| 23 | But it always seemed to me more important from L.G. 's point of view than from ours . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , it always seemed to me that the Cathars had got pretty close to it , ’ he said . |
| 25 | He was a tall , burly man , in whose company , it always seemed to Rose , Steve looked like a prisoner . |