Example sentences of "it seemed that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Richard drove a beaten-up car , it seemed that nobody could reasonably ask for anything more themselves . |
| 2 | It seemed that nobody liked anything . |
| 3 | It seemed that nobody at RD wanted to talk to a lucky winner . |
| 4 | I looked around , and it seemed that everyone was looking at Kezia . |
| 5 | It seemed that everyone had to be classified according to height and weight so that they would compete against boys of roughly the same size in the school sports at the end of the year . |
| 6 | It seemed that everyone wanted to know about what I was doing . |
| 7 | One person spent illicit hours at Saatchi 's designing our logo ; WTN allowed a lot of things to go through the system — printing , photocopying , artwork ; Gina got the entire staff of her office converted to the cause within weeks and it seemed that everyone else had done the same : soon members ' colleagues , friends and relatives were all helping out . |
| 8 | It seemed that everything in the championship really hung on the reliability of each driver 's car . |
| 9 | Whether he was around that night or not we 'll never know , but it seemed that everything that could go amiss , did . |
| 10 | Now she felt better , but still it seemed that everything had changed . |
| 11 | ( Also , the particle theory of light went out of favor during the nineteenth century ; it seemed that everything could be explained by the wave theory , and according to the wave theory , it was not clear that light would be affected by gravity at all . ) |
| 12 | It seemed that everything was conspiring against her . |
| 13 | The bed faced the window that looked out over miles of countryside and it seemed that everything in the room was white , from the white , frilled curtains to the dainty white duvet cover and pillow case all edged with broderie anglaise . |
| 14 | ‘ This was the time when the group should have started to become a real group , but it seemed that everybody had an opinion on how the record should sound and we ended up becoming less of a group . |
| 15 | It seemed that everybody was at least potentially prostituted . |
| 16 | It seemed that what they wanted most was facilities . |
| 17 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 18 | It seemed that her brother had been right after all when he warned her that the Decoy Lodge was haunted . |
| 19 | But since it seemed that her car was going nowhere without one , ‘ Could the mechanic fit one for me — as a matter of some urgency ? ’ she asked anxiously — and discovered that her rescuer must have already put that same question to him . |
| 20 | I no longer saw them , indeed , as legless beings on self moving pedestals as I had done at Salisbury but from being so constantly restricted in movement it seemed that they must be incapable of movement . |
| 21 | Before the last Test at the Oval , Gower exhorted his troops to ‘ one last , big effort ’ to avoid completely ignominy , and for a while it seemed that they might . |
| 22 | It seemed that they should stop and follow the sight of the two young boys , but it was too late they had been and they had gone and now only a disturbance was left behind . |
| 23 | Just as it seemed that they may be some sort of communication , the wind grew stronger and all went awry , the sky momentarily clearing , the celestial blue briefly highlighting the monochrome grey . |
| 24 | It seemed that they were determined to carry these solutions through . |
| 25 | To the administrators concerned with the welfare of the Masai , however , it seemed that they had a very good case for keeping the enormous area which had been assigned to them . |
| 26 | For a heady moment it seemed that they would not be disappointed . |
| 27 | It seemed that they had exceeded his instructions . |
| 28 | It seemed that they were currently engaged on a Pharaoh picture with a modest budget . |
| 29 | From the example of the cows before me it seemed that they were designed only and eternally to eat grass and , left to themselves , would never do anything else . |
| 30 | The kids had been sent to her mother 's house , and now it seemed that they had a new surrogate father . |