Example sentences of "he seemed [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed of a different texture and substance from her gentle and ineffectual mother ; he was hewn or cut out of thunder itself . |
| 2 | He seemed at a loss for words , and Ward made no attempt to help him . |
| 3 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 4 | During the long ministry of Lord North ( 1770–82 ) he seemed for a time to have achieved this objective . |
| 5 | He seemed like a different person , much older , worn and harried . |
| 6 | I 'd met Laura 's husband only for a minute or two , but he seemed like a regular guy . |
| 7 | I said he seemed like a nice kid , and Hart said : ‘ The story is that he killed somebody , when he was thirteen years old . ’ |
| 8 | The Aird baby has a strong cast of thought and he imposes himself , philosophically speaking ; as he stared at me , lying on my lap , he seemed like a hand of mine . |
| 9 | To Blumenthal he seemed like a ghost . |
| 10 | He says that he seemed like a nice chap . |
| 11 | And also someone like him because I mean , I mean er obviously he , he seemed like a , I mean I 'm sure he 's a nice guy er I mean when it comes down to it he probably is a nice guy , he 's probably nice to her but it 's just the fact that he is so restricted in his views and |
| 12 | ‘ I could see that he had not had a drink yet and I was doubly surprised that he seemed in a good mood . ’ |
| 13 | He seemed in a hurry to get away to his next appointment . |
| 14 | John Major , the British prime minister , created a political storm recently when he seemed in a speech to be supporting the idea of workfare — requiring the unemployed to work in exchange for benefits . |
| 15 | ‘ He seemed in a bit of a panic . |
| 16 | He seemed in a hurry to distance himself from the work he had been doing . |