Example sentences of "[pron] seemed [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room had a fireplace , sink , cooker and another feature which seemed to particularly arouse the curiosity of our visitor : an enamel bath below the window . |
| 2 | According to Radzinowicz and Hood ( 1986 , p.42 ) , this applied particularly to Engels , who seemed to radically change his mind in the course of his life : |
| 3 | He seemed to just FIT IN . ’ |
| 4 | And yet there were times , fleeting but strangely precious times , when he seemed to momentarily forget the war of nerves raging between them . |
| 5 | Well , at that time my best pal went to the pit , his mother would n't let him enter in th for scholarship , but he did happen to come here for , Well , he seemed to always get a day 's day release from the year dot , I think , and er eventually he got some A levels . |
| 6 | Er er it seems we had a very good er er quartermaster , he seemed to always turn up er he seemed to always turn up with something . |
| 7 | Er er it seems we had a very good er er quartermaster , he seemed to always turn up er he seemed to always turn up with something . |
| 8 | ‘ How does it follow from what you 've said that you came to be — ’ He paused and his lips compressed in a cruelly thin line before he seemed to deliberately force away the tension , saying simply , ‘ To be with my brother ? ’ |
| 9 | He was thoughtful and circumspect about what others , as teachers , did ; about what he experienced and felt inside and then , as though guided by some inner light , he seemed to intuitively arrive at simple , fundamental truths . |