Example sentences of "seemed [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found this vaguely reassuring ; a short , sharp death seemed preferable to a long , slow chewing underwater . |
| 2 | A system which allowed electronic unlocking of cells so that they could use shared toilet facilities seemed preferable to most . |
| 3 | It seemed refreshing now . |
| 4 | No human is capable of truly knowing that they are not immortal , that someday the I that seemed eternal will cease , save in one moment ; the moment before true death . |
| 5 | He did lose the lines on more than one occasion and threshed around helplessly through pauses that seemed eternal , until the A.S.M. 's quiet voice in his ear managed to get him back on to the right track . |
| 6 | Each on its own seemed admirable and only a small addition to the government 's total expenditure . |
| 7 | The wind had died away and the throb of Seawitch 's diesel engine seemed loud to Polly as Nathan guided the boat out of the harbour . |
| 8 | The tabloids seemed hell-bent on knocking Diana off the pedestal they had put her on , determined to prove , or invent if necessary , that she had a roving eye . |
| 9 | He seemed hell-bent on hurting her , but why ? |
| 10 | It seemed strange to make that argument , Mr Cook said , when it was clear the whole policy review process was designed to placate the centre ground . |
| 11 | It seemed strange to me that many dead Germans we had come across in the built-up areas after leaving the landing beaches yesterday morning had no boots on , some were even minus socks . |
| 12 | It seemed strange without Sid next door , and the barrage seemed much worse than yesterday evening . |
| 13 | As he watched her squeeze through the stile and walk forward with the others , she seemed strange and unreal , like something he had imagined when he was a very little boy . |
| 14 | It seemed strange , walking over brown leaves to a very English suburban house in Maresfield Gardens to visit the great mid-European . |
| 15 | The Girls slept in cubicles with others , which seemed strange at first but the fun they generated helped to overcome any homesickness . |
| 16 | We all had young families ; people without children seemed strange to us , beings from a forgotten world ; we discussed education and the bomb . |
| 17 | It seemed strange to Maura to look up at someone . |
| 18 | This seemed strange , as it had not been our habit to build large fires . |
| 19 | He had blushed at the thought and turned quickly away , but as time passed he found that he desperately wanted to share his secret with her ; until then he 'd always confided in her unhesitatingly and it seemed strange that something should now make him hold back . |
| 20 | At first I took them for Maria 's , though it seemed strange that she should be going down to the beach at that time . |
| 21 | It seemed strange , to have that old pamphlet by me , that tiny piece of a long-past England that had found its way to this Greek island , these pine trees , this pagan earth . |
| 22 | I thought I heard the sound of horses in the distance , which seemed strange at two o'clock in the morning . |
| 23 | Heinrich at first seemed strange to her . |
| 24 | It seemed strange that it should still be there , in a trunk . |
| 25 | At first this seemed strange to some of the staff who saw it as only one step away from slavery . |
| 26 | The little house seemed strange and empty without Emily . |
| 27 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 28 | Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’ |
| 29 | Reynolds seemed sedate , perhaps reflective , after his victory . |
| 30 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |