Example sentences of "it seemed that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that he was further along the road . |
| 2 | It seemed that he had heard her , because there was silence again and Jinny turned back towards the little patch of bushes she was picking over . |
| 3 | But it seemed that he had sparked something off . |
| 4 | Crisp had slowed almost to a trot , but still it seemed that he might hold on . |
| 5 | It seemed that he had a foot planted firmly on both sides of the generation gap . |
| 6 | . It seemed that he acted as a receiver of stolen goods … |
| 7 | It seemed that he used a safety-pin inserted into the urethra for the purposes of masturbation and , in order that it should not be lost , he tied a length of cotton to it . |
| 8 | It seemed that he was extra attentive to me , and I heard via the grapevine that he always referred to me as ‘ the little Waaf with the starry eyes ’ . |
| 9 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |
| 10 | How extraordinary it seemed that he and Rufus had stood in front of that picture and laughed at it ! |
| 11 | It seemed that he had stopped playing . |
| 12 | No master pleaded for his future : it seemed that he had traded in his scholarship for that foreign and rather dangerous element-self-expression . |
| 13 | For a second it seemed that he would be unable to respond , but then he found his voice . |
| 14 | He was developing self-control in the classroom , but found it harder on the playground where it seemed that he was easily influenced by other children to behave badly . |
| 15 | In 1331 he went to Amiens to do liege homage to Philip for Gascony , and it seemed that he had tacitly abandoned his claim . |
| 16 | As the political argument had developed , it seemed that he must fight Communism and Jewry together , sooner or later . |
| 17 | In legal terms it seemed that he was free to intervene ; his claim to exercise sovereignty in Aquitaine had not been renounced in 1360 . |
| 18 | His polemical attitudes were somewhat softened when it seemed that he might have to act upon them , and he found it necessary to disavow the political and social activism which members of the Moot such as Karl Mannheim wished to pursue . |
| 19 | It seemed that he came to associate his love affair with me with the one Meaulnes had with Valentine — and Meaulnes 's resultant guilt and loss of purity . |
| 20 | It was almost three months since he had been home , but now , standing there , it seemed that he had never been away . |
| 21 | It seemed that he wanted to talk to me . |
| 22 | It seemed that he did want to , for he answered her question far more fully than he need have done . |
| 23 | It seemed that he 'd expected the animal 's response to be more intense on the second day , but it actually scored lower on his scale . |
| 24 | It seemed that he would n't be kind when I was ill , but only when I was badly behaved and unpleasant to him . |
| 25 | For a moment it seemed that he would protest , but then he got up . |
| 26 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 27 | I have a twin brother and it seemed that he was allowed to do all the things I was n't . |
| 28 | It seemed that he had undeservedly passed an examination which he had n't even known he was taking . |
| 29 | For all his much-vaunted ‘ conversion ’ , it seemed that he still lusted after the pleasures of the flesh , still itched to finger the curve of Clare 's side , to feel her thigh brush against his . |
| 30 | It seemed that he was not , after all , a true barge dweller . |