Example sentences of "[pers pn] seemed [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seemed to spend much of my time assisting the chef and painting but this did nothing to damp my enthusiasm . |
| 2 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 3 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing was what I seemed to get most of . ’ |
| 5 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 6 | And of course it is the sort of thing one would have told people — something special , idiosyncratic and yet not too intimate about you , and a trait in which ( naturally ) you seemed to take some pride … . ’ |
| 7 | There was a carpet into which you seemed to sink several inches , an ornate desk in the style of the French Empire , a huge couch , upholstered in grey and scarlet , and a number of big soft armchairs in the same pattern . |
| 8 | The other side of your comment was that you seemed to like these certain basic typefaces . |
| 9 | ‘ You seemed to have some trouble with that mattress downstairs , ’ the housekeeper remarked . |
| 10 | Her name was Annette and she seemed to do all the serving and running up and down while her rather dour and unhealthy-looking mother issued the orders . |
| 11 | She seemed to lack all will or decision . |
| 12 | She seemed to lack any Dickensian sense of the poetry of death . |
| 13 | She seemed to have such endless resources of anger , so many obviously right , sincerely held opinions . |
| 14 | She was quite good with delinquent adolescents partly because she seemed to have some insight into the impulse that makes the young and the violent turn on the weak and the defenceless … |
| 15 | She seemed to have more energy as a result , but she developed nettle-rash and a vaginal discharge , which turned out to-be due to thrush ( Candida infection ) . |
| 16 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 17 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 18 | She operated her business from a large and lonely house just off the south end of Burrard Bridge , but she seemed to keep most of her correspondence and reference material in a large knitted reticule which she carried with her , everywhere . |
| 19 | She seemed to get such delight in removing all those objects from me . |
| 20 | God knows why , but she seemed to associate that with pleasure . ’ |
| 21 | She seemed to think some kind of explanation was necessary . |
| 22 | ‘ We were having fun with the children but we seemed to lose each other , ’ says Davina . |
| 23 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 24 | We seemed to suit each other in every particular . ’ |
| 25 | We seemed to send many searchers away happy as well as laden . |
| 26 | We seemed to get more than our fair share of bad weather on that tour apart from an idyllic three weeks in the West country . |
| 27 | They seemed to dance all the time with their own group of friends or relatives . |
| 28 | This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity . |
| 29 | They seemed to take that kind of man to make him sergeant in the beginning after the Police Strike . |
| 30 | They seemed to reflect more of their owner 's personality . |