Example sentences of "seemed [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of those days when snow fell all day without sticking and the cold seemed to penetrate right to the bone . |
| 2 | His way with birds and animals seemed to go out to all flowers and plants , too . |
| 3 | Every night , he seemed to go out to posh nightclubs , to restaurants and to major pop concerts . |
| 4 | Men seemed to float up to her , encircling her before she reached the bottom step , and she felt Lucenzo 's fingers leave hers as he was crowded out . |
| 5 | It was a groan of hunger , as she writhed in a sudden welter of dumb shyness as his lips and fingers sought intimate places which seemed to scream out to be covered up and left in decent privacy … |
| 6 | This seemed to relate closely to my problems , but I have to admit it took me a while to pluck up the courage to do that deadly and dangerous deed ( that everyone tells you never to do ) to my machine ! |
| 7 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 8 | No , this phobia seemed to relate directly to Matthew Blake . |
| 9 | Several times on my pilgrimage through Biomorph Land I seemed to come close to a precursor of my insects , but , then , in spite of my best efforts as a selecting agent , evolution went off on what proved to be a false trail . |
| 10 | After countless ages I seemed to come back to a real realisation that I was continuing to breathe , even if with difficulty , and did n't seem in immediate danger of stopping . |
| 11 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 12 | In the far-off fifties , mute obedience seemed to come readily to schoolchildren , in marked contrast to the sullen disobedience which is seen today . |
| 13 | Pillars ran around the circular enclosure , and the myriad corridors all seemed to disappear off to an elaborate pattern . |
| 14 | How can I forget Johnny McCarthy whose humour , whose mimicry , whose abundant love of life on so many , on so many times seemed to diminish almost to extinction , those grinding moments of hopelessness . |
| 15 | Everything always seemed to lead back to that place . |
| 16 | the train had made its imperceptible departure and was rolling along again past the uninhabited infinity of rocks and lakes and conifers that seemed to march on to the end of the world . |
| 17 | Libyans seemed to listen most to broadcasts from Libya , Cairo , Tel Aviv , Saudi Arabia , London , Monte Carlo and Kuwait . |
| 18 | The country was smaller than Wales , only one fortieth the size of California ; the ridge-line of mountain peaks provided Lebanon 's epic dimensions , plateaus of snow that seemed to reach up to the moon on winter nights . |
| 19 | She thought she heard an owl cry , and the falling shape , black now and only just visible , seemed to sweep suddenly to the left , soaring , then falling , turning a round and white face to glance at her as it vanished into the gloom . |
| 20 | He did something technical on it , and suddenly his attention seemed to revert entirely to his exhibition . |
| 21 | Initially the problem seemed to apply only to such expanses of water as swimming pools , rivers and the sea . |
| 22 | She did n't object ; she seemed to look forward to it , in fact . |
| 23 | Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers . |
| 24 | We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody . |
| 25 | And he seemed to get closer to these seamen because of that . |
| 26 | As it seemed to get closer to reality , I felt myself changing . |
| 27 | He would start with her shoulders and move down to her hips , and no amount of disdain seemed to get through to him . |
| 28 | In fact , nothing seemed to get through to him at all . |
| 29 | We just never seemed to get round to them . |
| 30 | The downpour seemed to add further to the depressing conclusions of the report . |