Example sentences of "[pers pn] seemed [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inhabitants of Tali-fu are mostly Min Chia , a population with a distinctive language of their own , and to Hsu 's personal dismay he was treated as a stranger : " though regarded sympathetically , I was always an outsider , despite the fact that as far as physical appearance is concerned I seemed no different from those who made up the community " . |
| 2 | Linda Bloomfield , chief executive of Merseyside TEC , said : ‘ Businessmen 's time is in short supply so taking the show to them seemed a logical idea . ’ |
| 3 | She seemed a thoughtful person , someone of like nature to Mary Smith , but with much more up top . |
| 4 | She seemed a typical product of her upper-middle-class background in Westchester County . |
| 5 | She seemed a brazen hussy ! ’ |
| 6 | Because she seemed a nice woman and had had a nice mother , with whom she seemed to get on well . |
| 7 | She seemed a little hurt suddenly . |
| 8 | He says : ‘ She seemed a happy person on the surface but underneath she had been deeply affected by her parents ’ divorce . ’ |
| 9 | She seemed a bright , unthinking product of the sixties , intent on enjoying herself when everybody else had settled down . |
| 10 | She seemed a charming girl to me . |
| 11 | A pulse of light slid over Fincara 's face , and the long green eyes were so alight , so blazingly concentrated , that she seemed a different woman . |
| 12 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |
| 13 | Her voice faded as her body weakened and drooped , so that she seemed no more than the shadow of the eagle she must once have been , and a shadow that was losing itself in the darkness of a cage . |
| 14 | Her eyes , despite her years , still held their fire and , though her figure had thickened somewhat , to Katherine 's young eyes she seemed the very embodiment of the word regal . |
| 15 | She seemed the same as ever as she closed in on him with that unfortunate overbearing manner , except that today there was an almost wild look about her as she burst out , ‘ I felt I had to come , Freddie . |
| 16 | We seemed a million miles from the Weddell Sea and that ice-encrusted vessel , but I had a feeling now that this was all a part of the voyage to come . |
| 17 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 18 | Indeed , there was a moment when they seemed the oldest eyes in the world . |
| 19 | At first sight they seemed an ill-assorted pair . |
| 20 | He seemed a sinister character with his long snout and bony body , alert , watchful , suspicious . |
| 21 | ‘ He seemed a kindly person , not in the least severe . |
| 22 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 23 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 24 | In a red cloak I saw him go , His back was bent , his step was slow , And as he laboured through the cold He seemed a hundred winters old . |
| 25 | He seemed a pleasant well spoken quiet young man . |
| 26 | The last time he called on us after his exhibition at Keighley he seemed a new man , with a delight in having found himself in his painting and amazement that it also gave pleasure to so many others . |
| 27 | Wattana had beaten Parrott in four major events this season and he seemed a good bet to improve this record when he established a 2–0 lead . |
| 28 | He seemed a useful source where Dysart 's Oxford days were concerned . |
| 29 | For a while he seemed a shy figure hovering on the borders of a conversation , longing to take part in it , to belong . |
| 30 | He had seen the boy once or twice since , and he seemed a nice enough lad — a little backward perhaps , but his mother was ashamed of him , and refused to send him to school , perhaps fearing the other children would tease him . |