Example sentences of "[pron] seemed [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I thought oh I , I , I seemed to remember the Whitney Bay bit and I mean I do n't know what I 've done with the blinking programme last year , I mean they 're all in the magazine rack , but I do n't think that one 's there that was terrific that were n't it ? |
| 2 | Even at that exciting moment , I remembered the old Admiral Benbow , and I seemed to hear the voice of old Bill , the seaman , singing with them . |
| 3 | There were no A-levels or 0-levels and although I once got a hearty handshake for my English book from a kindly Mr. Pickering at Abbeydale School , I seemed to get the cane for almost everything else . |
| 4 | Nothing seemed to disturb the tranquillity of that Sabbath in the heart of the Highlands , with the scent of the warm conifers and the distant shimmer of sun on the calm waters of Loch Lochy . |
| 5 | Nothing seemed to alleviate the torment , and Edward grew more fractious daily . |
| 6 | Nothing seemed to extinguish the flames . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ They had the highest scorer and won more games — but everyone seemed to enjoy the evening . |
| 9 | It was such a big place and nobody seemed to know the whereabouts of the junior physician she was asking for . |
| 10 | Associated with this corporatist trend , which seemed to decrease the power of the traditional peripheral politicians , was the development of regionalism as a policy mode , to which we referred earlier . |
| 11 | He was glad to be free of Godstowe and the cloying , hidden menace which seemed to permeate the place like sane unwholesome stench . |
| 12 | From being with a squadron on a war footing at Driffield — which was a pleasant oasis in the East Riding of Yorkshire — to arriving in the Highland town of Forres , which seemed to welcome the inmates of Kinloss. was like fumbling through a series of dark curtains into some broad sunlight . |
| 13 | In the dull moonlight , which seemed to paint the landscape with phosphorescence rather than illuminate it , the region resembled a pale sky scattered all over with puffs of black cloud . |
| 14 | Similarly , the Prayer Book published in 1559 described the baptized child as ‘ a member of Christ , the child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom ’ , a form of words which seemed to discount the possibility that the infant might have been born reprobate . |
| 15 | We took Ben to the vet and he was given a course of antibiotics , which seemed to do the trick . |
| 16 | In October 1962 Kennedy blockaded Cuba and forced Khruschev to withdraw his missiles in a crisis which seemed to take the world to the brink of nuclear war . |
| 17 | There was a robust strength about all Australian stations which seemed to reflect the character of the early colonies , their ambitions , and the part they would play in a successful Commonwealth in the twentieth century . |
| 18 | Tamar stood for few moments studying the turbulent river , which seemed to reflect the turmoil of her thoughts . |
| 19 | I was having to survive on my dole money — which seemed to disappear the day I got it . |
| 20 | That was the last of the major rows which seemed to haunt the Production Office throughout its formative first year , but it was a sad indictment that Doctor Who never won full respectability as a serious drama programme within the Corporation . |
| 21 | Peter Abelard rejected these crude and often absurd ideas which seemed to lower the dignity of God . |
| 22 | Although outside the sun was shining and this room was in the front of the house , no glimmer of sunlight filtered through the venetian blinds and the half-drawn curtains , only a dusty grey luminosity which seemed to chill the room . |
| 23 | An obvious possibility was an academic splash , and throughout his years at Burleigh he had chafed at the mediocrity of the school , the variable nature of the teaching , the dimness of its reputation , all of which seemed to preclude the splash academic . |
| 24 | It was the only part of the article I understood , but at least somebody seemed to see the point . |
| 25 | Peter and Nona had their backs against a wall , they were facing the man who seemed to inhabit the tunnel . |
| 26 | Control injections , without melatonin , had no effect , with the exception of one unusual rat who seemed to use the injection to order his life . |
| 27 | Sebastian 's mother , Deborah , was the only person who seemed to suspect the disarray of Alix 's emotions . |
| 28 | The Gay Centre in Glasgow was deteriorating socially , so much so that it was coming to the state where women and others were feeling oppressed by the atmosphere created by insensitive youths who seemed to believe the Centre , including the back room ( our only meeting-place ) , was their seven-nights-a-week preserve . |
| 29 | In this conversation he cited the case of Montaigne : here was a man who seemed to understand the kind of world he was living in . |
| 30 | If necessary , he would send Sergeant Phyllis Henley , who seemed to understand the ways of the family , to sit outside the door in her car until Peter Fleming either came out or came home . |