Example sentences of "[vb past] seemed so " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seemed so smitten , he assumed there was nothing he could do that would really offend her . |
| 2 | Miss Henrietta 's death had seemed so much more terrible and yet when she ventured to say this she was met with blank looks . |
| 3 | That was why they had seemed so dreamily bright before . |
| 4 | For a brief moment the one-man show had seemed so promising and he had dared to hope . |
| 5 | Mine were of that last tropical downpour in Samaná when the potential violence had seemed so distant to me . |
| 6 | If there is regret over the failure of Resolution 242 as a blueprint for peace , which had seemed so promising in 1967 , there are grounds for even greater regret that the 1949 ( IVth ) Geneva Convention has not been vigorously upheld by those who claimed to be seeking a basis for peace . |
| 7 | Was it possible that he was connected with ‘ my lord — Mr Smith ’ , who had seemed so anxious to get rid of them ? |
| 8 | It had seemed so important to make a good impression , to show him that she had risen above the way of life in the alleys , but it was a selfish , uncaring side of her he had seen . |
| 9 | What happens then is that faith runs up against an awkward question or a scornful dismissal , and suddenly everything that had seemed so unmistakably certain , meaningful , true , collapses like a balloon leaving the remnants of faith limp and deflated . |
| 10 | The Reverend Peter Brown was worried that the police had seemed so confused about what he called ‘ orthodox auld kirk ’ Christianity , as well as the less usual religious situations such as the Quaker Movement . |
| 11 | It had seemed so straightforward then . |
| 12 | The ring that had seemed so small for just two men was suddenly full of ecstatic members of the Lewis camp . |
| 13 | In reflecting on the day , after Joy and Alan had gone home , I was surprised that it had seemed so unfrightening . |
| 14 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 15 | It had seemed so very straightforward at first , at the time of his recruitment . |
| 16 | He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust . |
| 17 | The invasion threats , which had seemed so immediate in 1948–49 , had subsided and there had been fewer incidents on the parallel . |
| 18 | ever since Grasmere when the trap the fisherman had sprung — and which had seemed so foolproof — had simply not worked , he had been a little abashed . |
| 19 | Suddenly the wedding day , which had seemed so far away , was almost upon them . |
| 20 | Up to now the possibility had seemed so remote as not to need consideration — an order given by Hardy as a matter of course , accepted by Denis as a standard instruction in an operation of this nature . |
| 21 | I looked over his shoulder and saw Fra Angelico 's famous ‘ Annunciation ’ ; and at once knew why the colonnade outside had seemed so familiar . |
| 22 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 23 | He glanced over her slowly from head to foot , taking in the sleeveless green cotton dress with its tight bodice and full skirt that had seemed so modest when she had put it on . |
| 24 | What had seemed so fresh and enticing at first was now stale , predictable . |
| 25 | He had seemed so solitary , so self-reliant . |
| 26 | Carolyn was picking up on the movements of the three women , which had seemed so mysteriously random at first . |
| 27 | By this time , Lewis had shown Morse the yellow A4 sheet ; and Morse had seemed so delighted with it that he 'd turned on the car 's internal light in transit . |
| 28 | And when I left them , the thing that had seemed so horrible to me was transformed into happiness of body and soul for me . " |
| 29 | Her life had seemed so settled , so straightforward , until this man had come along to complicate it . |
| 30 | The water that had seemed so bitingly refreshing only moments ago was already feeling like a strait-jacket of ice tangling around Charity 's speedily numbing limbs . |