Example sentences of "seemed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this cautious , adroit , enigmatic leader seemed for long to be very much what the nation and the times required . |
| 2 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 3 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |
| 4 | It seemed for the barest fraction of an instant that a smile might be knocking at the underside of that granite jaw . |
| 5 | It seemed for her that space itself was now slowly constricting . |
| 6 | Agnes watched her walk to the gate , as spry as a sparrow , and none the worse it seemed for her tumble . |
| 7 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 8 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 9 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 10 | Light enveloped Ruth , a heatless blaze which seemed for an instant about to destroy her ; and then she was gone into a great space of darkness . |
| 11 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 12 | Christina flicked back her long hair and concentrated on Pauline , who seemed for the first time to want to confide in her . |
| 13 | When Len arrived , they seemed for some reason to talk about nothing but health . |
| 14 | The electroencephalogram ( EEG ) seemed for a while to carry the secret of the soul in its multiple waveforms . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've just had a dreadful thought , ’ said Chrissie , her eyes wide with foreboding and an ominous throb in her voice which seemed for once totally natural . |
| 16 | They might have exchanged , again , the people of their two schools , but to Kate these people seemed for the moment irrelevant . |
| 17 | During the long ministry of Lord North ( 1770–82 ) he seemed for a time to have achieved this objective . |
| 18 | The County Associations which were then formed to demand a widening of the suffrage and a redistribution of Parliamentary seats , and the General Association , a substitute Parliament , or anti-Parliament , in which some of them proposed to combine , seemed for a time to threaten drastic and violent constitutional changes . |
| 19 | It almost seemed for a moment as if he would come over to the table and speak , but then he turned away , looking rather puzzled and began to order his tea . |
| 20 | Ashenden shrugged , and seemed for the moment somewhat less at ease . |
| 21 | As she stared , mesmerised , up at his wide , sensual mouth , it seemed for one wild , completely mad moment that he was intending to kiss her … |
| 22 | Last year , reading week was , it seemed for ages , was n't it ? |
| 23 | Gradually there arose a faint humming from outside the tent as people gathered to talk and speculate , so it seemed as if those left inside were surrounded by a swarm of curious but not unfriendly bees . |
| 24 | In the 1950s , it seemed as if there might be a place for literature in the academy , so that the writing of fiction or poetry , of criticism , and the teaching of literature would become a unified form of life . |
| 25 | At the time it seemed as if the government had crushed the nationalist movement by locking up its leaders for life . |
| 26 | It seemed as if one of the most respected women on television had succumbed to the lure of glitzy fame . |
| 27 | Not so long ago it seemed as if the world was to divide into three main trading blocks : the EC based around the West German economy ; a Northern American block based around the US-Canadian free trade area , and a Pacific unit incorporating the Asian tigers with Japan and the yen at the centre . |
| 28 | Old feuds of race were diminishing , rivalries and prejudices were by degrees fading out.Such frequent and such intimate relations had thus been established between nations , that it seemed as if they must soon unite in one family , in one single federal state . |
| 29 | Still looking down , it seemed as if the pattern of squares was moving . |
| 30 | This girl seemed as if she wanted to become our friend . |