Example sentences of "they seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft-centred milk chocolates that came as one bit them seemed almost as exciting as dancing with someone you knew you were about to sleep with used to be . |
| 2 | A couple of hundred people came , and all of them seemed to stay overnight . |
| 3 | Neither of them seemed to realise that she never planned it . |
| 4 | Fenna might have given her both appetite and menstruation in his parting , but neither of them seemed as though they were worth the effort . |
| 5 | Davie always seemed to have the best girls , and none of them seemed to complain . |
| 6 | He believed the nurses all fancied him , but none of them seemed willing to do anything about it . |
| 7 | The patients had all been washed and set up in their chairs and most of them seemed to be almost asleep . |
| 8 | Half of them seemed to have met their partners at practice or come from bell-ringing families . |
| 9 | None of them seemed anxious to comply and Trent doubted his strength would last long enough to haul Gomez against the weight of the Zodiac . |
| 10 | None of them seemed keen to be involved with the police . |
| 11 | Many of them seemed like tiny oases hemmed in by the alien rubber which overran the entire peninsula . |
| 12 | In December I was interviewed on a dark evening at Trinity by a group of Fellows , one of whom wore enormous boots and all of them seemed amused by my belief that there were no good books on eighteenth-century English history . |
| 13 | So many small rivalries existed between different cliques in the camp and so many of them seemed synthetic that it looked sometimes as if antagonism was essential to human beings as a form of self-expression . |
| 14 | None of them seemed to last very long . ’ |
| 15 | All of them seemed to have in common a cold dislike of children and a determination to do as little as possible for their inadequate wages . |
| 16 | In these circumstances , a determined mother could be free to groom herself , hold office in this or that community activity , or find a job , in order to fulfil herself ; though none of them seemed to be able to explain why acting as a bank teller or the secretary of a charity , for example , was more fulfilling than looking after their own children . |
| 17 | I asked , but neither of them seemed to hear me . |
| 18 | I realized early on how much I was getting out of the callers and the fact that some of them seemed to get something out of me too increased my confidence in other areas of my life . |
| 19 | At the same time they saw a causal link between the predicament of the peasants and their own frustrations ; the political , social , and cultural constrictions which impinged directly upon them seemed to be the product of a society based upon oppression of the masses . |
| 20 | Whether or not his opinions actually percolated down to subordinate commanders many of them seemed to share his beliefs about keeping the French out , or at least , in an interesting reversal of roles in the First World War , treating France as an associated rather than an allied power . |
| 21 | None of them seemed to include the tube in their itineraries , but there was some useful advice on how to secure the best berths on a Nile river cruiser and an interesting complaint about the lack of leg room on Concorde which assured him that the R and the F of this world had to contend with life 's little niggles just like everybody else . |
| 22 | The Typical Chinese Dishes with plenty of good hot coffee on top of them seemed to combine with the heating in the place to make me sleepy . |
| 23 | The German prostitutes were terribly clean and efficient and not one of them seemed in the least turned on by what they were doing . |
| 24 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 25 | Some of them seemed to view it as a sort of health cure . |
| 26 | As they watched , a tall tree in front of them seemed to be burning with a white flame . |
| 27 | The smaller of them seemed to stare at her a moment , then turn to the other and nod . |
| 28 | A forest of scarlet , lim-wood pillars supported the roof , and the five-clawed golden dragons entwined around the length of each of them seemed to snarl fiercely at their reflections in the floor of polished ceramic tiles . |
| 29 | The only things that might have been classed as narrative were the poems , and they did n't seem to have anything to do with each other , apart from the fact a lot of them seemed to be vaguely about Death , or Love . |
| 30 | Where she might be he could not imagine and the gap between them seemed perceptibly to widen as he sat waiting in his car for a doleful hour of encroaching twilight . |