Example sentences of "[pers pn] seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to suit me and I seemed to suit it and I felt comfortable . |
| 2 | I did n't go after anything fancy , but somehow I seemed to keep muffing up the interviews . |
| 3 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 4 | But it should be added that at the press preview , I seemed to be only one of several spectators who chose to devote themselves during these scenes to a meticulous scrutiny of their shoes . |
| 5 | I seemed to have nothing . |
| 6 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 7 | I had the impression that she was shouting upstairs , and I seemed to hear footsteps tripping lightly down to the phone . |
| 8 | She at first regarded the episode as a nightmare : ‘ I dreamed I seemed to you all to have died . ’ |
| 9 | I seemed to be drifting from one thing to another , trying to please my parents and trying to do the opposite from Pat , to be different . |
| 10 | Then I seemed to grow a couple of inches , and thin out . |
| 11 | I seemed to have stumbled into a painting by Hogarth . |
| 12 | Yet I seemed to hear the distant cheers , as each Province selected its king and the champions of Ulster , Leinster , Connaught and Munster set out for Tara and the kingship trials . |
| 13 | I seemed to hear trumpets and see colourful flags and standards fluttering in the sea breeze . |
| 14 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | At this point I had one of those Proustian flashbacks about just such a place which I seemed to have known in childhood . |
| 17 | I seemed to be standing outside myself and observing , as often one does on the most dramatic occasions of life . |
| 18 | That 's a habit I seemed to have got into during the pregnancy . |
| 19 | With two excellent midwives giving advice and encouragement , was born very fast and I seemed to recover almost immediately . |
| 20 | No other flowers were in the garden , yet I seemed to smell the strong scent of nicotiana . |
| 21 | The goat bells receded and I seemed to be moving through even deeper layers of peace . |
| 22 | I remember how calm and serene my father looked as he lay in his coffin and how I seemed to feel something break within me when they lowered the plush-covered lid and we rode behind the hearse to Rosedale Cemetery for the interment . |
| 23 | If I had landed on the ski-track , which was hard-packed and icy , I 'd have probably broken my neck , but I seemed to swerve off centre and thus landed in a soft snow-bank and lay panting , stunned and breathless , for a few minutes . |
| 24 | I slip into the pitfall of subjectivity with trepidation , but observing my fellow patients , I seemed to discern a distinct pattern so far as stress was concerned . |
| 25 | I seemed all set to continue my way to the top outdoors , but as it turned out , the highlight of my summer was getting my photograph in Athletics Weekly , the bible of the sport , for the first time . |
| 26 | I seemed to be running better and better , more powerfully . |
| 27 | Everyone watched me , pleased that I seemed impressed . |
| 28 | I seemed to live two inches behind the front of my skin , that part of me created wilfully by my lovers . |
| 29 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 30 | Anyway , last week I seemed to have typed my diary much in the style that Ms Keller would have . |