Example sentences of "[pron] seemed [to-vb] [art] [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 | I seemed to have a thing about people with the name 's A yeah , beginning with A |
| 3 | I seemed to have no value for him and it began to feel like a kind of death . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I seemed to hear an echo of Mala 's tasteless remark — ’ like a rat ? ’ — but I ignored it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then I seemed to grow a couple of inches , and thin out . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nothing seemed to alleviate the torment , and Edward grew more fractious daily . |
| 10 | Nothing seemed to extinguish the flames . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ They had the highest scorer and won more games — but everyone seemed to enjoy the evening . |
| 13 | Everyone seemed to have a newspaper in their hand that morning . |
| 14 | With the end of the play in sight , everyone seemed to get a second ( or possibly tenth ) wind . |
| 15 | Then , suddenly , when a manager had responsibility for tasks and projects that exceeded five years in scope , everyone seemed to perceive a difference not only in the scope of responsibility but also in its quality and in the kind of work and worker required to discharge it . |
| 16 | It was such a big place and nobody seemed to know the whereabouts of the junior physician she was asking for . |
| 17 | Tenison busied himself with gathering up plans and files , which seemed to litter every surface . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He was glad to be free of Godstowe and the cloying , hidden menace which seemed to permeate the place like sane unwholesome stench . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There will be no complaints from 26-year-old Flowers , even though it was his self-confidence which seemed to infect an England team short of inspiration in the past two weeks . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We took Ben to the vet and he was given a course of antibiotics , which seemed to do the trick . |
| 25 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Partly because it was increasing in numbers ; more particularly because it was seeking to gain a foothold in the rural parishes which had thus far been largely impervious to its appeal and especially because , in the era of the French Revolution , anything which seemed to pose a threat to the Church of England established by law was suspect . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Tamar stood for few moments studying the turbulent river , which seemed to reflect the turmoil of her thoughts . |
| 30 | Eliot felt that at Munich there had been a betrayal which seemed to demand an act of almost personal contrition . |