Example sentences of "he seemed a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was short and sturdy and when he was on a horse he seemed a part of it . |
| 2 | His garments were of the forest and he seemed a part of it as he sat there on a tree-stump , small , compact , a broken shape of browns , fawns , russets and greens . |
| 3 | He seemed a man without either a past or a future . |
| 4 | He seemed a man who understood her . |
| 5 | During the two occasions on which we talked , he seemed a caring and compassionate doctor blessed with a natural ease and affability , who needed publicity for the £2 million appeal he had launched to raise money to turn his Harley Street office into a well woman centre . |
| 6 | I think he meant it , he seemed a kind man . |
| 7 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
| 8 | But he seemed a bit tight-lipped about it . |
| 9 | ‘ Mmm … he seemed a bit quiet , ’ said Mervyn . |
| 10 | ‘ I did pop round for a chat with him earlier this evening and I thought he seemed a bit jumpy . |
| 11 | Francis , hands thrust deep into his trouser pockets , said : ‘ I thought he seemed a bit queer at lunch but I did n't expect it to come to this … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He seemed a bit of a playboy to me , ’ said McPhee . |
| 13 | Yeah , but he seemed a bit more like a normal fifteen , sixteen year old |
| 14 | To the Tsar , and especially to the Tsarina , he seemed a gift from heaven endowed with miraculous power to stem the Tsarevich 's bleeding attacks . |
| 15 | He came to spend the night , by agreement , twice a week and she saw him every day but there was no denying that he seemed a visitor and never a member of her household . |
| 16 | The last time he was at the Phoenix , in Simon Gray 's The Common Pursuit , John Sessions was lost in a soggy , unsympathetic part , while co-stars like Rik Mayall and Stephen Fry hogged all the limelight ; he seemed a non-entity . |