Example sentences of "[pron] seemed [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You seemed deep in thought . ’ |
| 2 | When Izzie came and sat next to him , she seemed close to crying . |
| 3 | No one moved ; no one seemed capable of movement . |
| 4 | The very air around her seemed alive with tension and expectancy . |
| 5 | He rubbed them with a paper napkin and then put them away in his jacket because they seemed ugly in front of this pretty girl . |
| 6 | Fen kept going for what seemed like ages and , despite his statement that they had to talk , he seemed disinclined for conversation . |
| 7 | And although he seemed full of hope for the future , somehow I thought he would never be very rich or successful . |
| 8 | He seemed bereft of sense as he pulled ribboned holly sprays from the walls and fed them to a sulky fire , cheering as they crackled and spurted heatless flame up the chimney . |
| 9 | This time he seemed ill at ease and jumpy and I noticed his face was slick with perspiration when he spun to greet me . |
| 10 | The only moment when he seemed ill at ease was when I raised the question of the forced repatriation to Russia at the end of the war of thousands of White Russian and Cossack soldiers from camps in northern Italy and Yugoslavia . |
| 11 | Their mother had warned them to beg for forgiveness when their turn came to pray to their great-grandfather 's spirit before the altar , and it seemed certain to Lan 's ten-year-old mind that if she and her brothers had angered their father so deeply they must also have offended the spirits of their illustrious ancestors too . |
| 12 | The equal opportunity for social mobility was a commonplace in the public mind but pressure of numbers began to render that equality suspect , since it seemed unequal in fact . |
| 13 | It seemed incongruous in relation to the events of the last week . |
| 14 | It seemed early for Mum to be back but I did n't think anything of it . |
| 15 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 16 | But now , in her present jittery , restless mood , it seemed fraught with danger . |
| 17 | It seemed quiet in school today , did n't seem so many children , is there ? |
| 18 | It seemed full of sunlight , and it had an air of peace , confidence and happiness . |
| 19 | Wearying though the journey had been at the time — even humiliating in respect of his being drawn in a litter — in retrospect it seemed full of excitement , a time when one knew not what would happen next or what lay around the next corner . |
| 20 | It seemed miraculous to Kit that the old woman did not die ; that she could haul herself back to life by miracles of her own devising , or by the medicine Ariel applied . |