Example sentences of "[noun sg] seem [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 2 | The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother ! |
| 3 | Sometimes Papert 's writings and his enthusiasm for changing the structure of education seem to place him in affinity with such educational radicals as Ivan Illich and Everett Reimer , but this is misleading . |
| 4 | Pronouncing the word seemed to bring him to his senses . |
| 5 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 6 | The activity seemed to rouse him from his stupor . |
| 7 | He broke off , apparently only to finish his drink , but then as he sat hunched in his chair contemplating his empty glass some overpowering depression seemed to crush him into silence . |
| 8 | At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson . |
| 9 | But he made little effort to develop this outside his own definitions of the genealogical method , while his shift into the problematics of power seemed to lead him into a labyrinth from which it was virtually impossible to extract himself . |