Example sentences of "seemed [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed fascinated by her tears . |
| 2 | Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow . |
| 3 | He seemed fascinated by his hands ; he was flexing the fingers rhythmically and gazing at them as if they could tell him something important about himself . |
| 4 | He seemed to wait for his words to sink in , then added , slowly and with emphasis , ‘ Pizarro was a thug . |
| 5 | His eyes seemed riveted on his hands — or on what they touched . |
| 6 | It 's pretty funny that you and Alicia were the only ones in the classroom before afternoon school persisted Gwendoline angry that no one seemed to agree with her suggestion . |
| 7 | Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning . |
| 8 | They settled in armchairs and she saw how the standard lamp threw shadows on his face , accentuating the hollows in his cheeks and the overhang of his brow so that his eyes seemed to sink into their sockets and burn there in the firelight like lamps in darkened caves . |
| 9 | Her expression froze at that , and his heart seemed to sink into his guts as he realised he 'd almost said the wrong thing . |
| 10 | Above her , the sun cast dappling shadows through the waving branches , so that his handsome features seemed to flicker in her sight . |
| 11 | The words , especially the names — Findias , Falias , Murias — seemed to shimmer in her mind like strong light , and she knew it was important to understand what was being said to her ; but still she felt leaden . |
| 12 | The chill from the bare wall seemed to penetrate to her bones . |
| 13 | It seemed to go through her body . |
| 14 | She might have had anyone she chose , ’ said Raynor , and a shadow seemed to fall across his face . |
| 15 | But in private , Mary remarked to Mick that it was funny how that one always seemed to fall on her feet . |
| 16 | He screwed up his face so it seemed to hide behind his huge nose . |
| 17 | But tonight her face seemed frozen into its gracious expression , like royalty in a traffic jam , and if she wished to herself that Hilda would make the odd concession so that civil conversation with her could be easier , nothing of this appeared in her manner . |
| 18 | Footsteps on the dark concrete platforms seemed to reverberate inside her head . |
| 19 | Even my master seemed unnerved by her cool demeanour . |
| 20 | interestingly , hearing people seemed to increase in their re-arrangement over time while there was very little difference in BSL . |
| 21 | Rafiq seemed occupied with his magazine . |
| 22 | Her heart seemed to swell in her chest — she could not get her breath ! |
| 23 | The box seemed resigned to its fate of demolition . |
| 24 | It was plagued by trifling mechanical problems and its chief technician , the charming bon vivant Carlo Chiti , seemed overwhelmed by its problems . |
| 25 | His physical proximity invariably seemed to provoke in her sensations with which she was quite unfamiliar . |
| 26 | The horse screamed as the bullet scored its neck , and it seemed to leap with its hindlegs , making the rear a mighty buck that shipped the rider off and into the shallows of the lake . |
| 27 | His fingers seemed to singe against her tender flesh . |
| 28 | The words seemed to catch in her throat . |
| 29 | People automatically seemed to defer to his judgement — or that was the impression she gained . |
| 30 | At which moment , the Editor , a young man from Glasgow , who seemed to bear on his narrow shoulders guilt for all the sins of the Western world , emerged from his office and was off to lunch with a left-wing Labour M.P . |