Example sentences of "and it seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked around , and it seemed that everyone was looking at Kezia . |
| 2 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 3 | And it seemed so obvious , the smell so present , |
| 4 | It was also known that Mrs Thatcher 's closest advisers , Charles Powell and Bernard Ingham , were implicated in the leak , and it seemed improbable that the Prime Minister should have been totally ignorant . |
| 5 | Finally , it became clear that no preliminary conference would be possible without widening the discussions unduly , and it seemed best to hold bilateral discussions first . |
| 6 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 7 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 8 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 9 | The theory of natural selection meant that natural species could be explained in terms of the conditions necessary for their survival , and it seemed a small further step to explaining human social systems in such terms ; that is , in terms of the ways by which human beings gained their livelihood and reproduced . |
| 10 | There were so many of them about , and it seemed to him they caused as much trouble to a policeman as burglars . |
| 11 | Already the tanks ahead were in action and it seemed as though they had made contact with , and destroyed the majority of the enemy flank guard . |
| 12 | ‘ We dug the pond because there was n't anything to look at and it seemed a very obvious thing to do . |
| 13 | The burden inevitably fell mainly on the mothers and it seemed that their loneliness could at least be lessened if they had a regular opportunity to share their experiences . |
| 14 | Hodge and Parker commanded the midfield , Crosby and Rice , strongly supported by Laws and Pearce , drove forward on the flanks and it seemed only a matter of time before the right sort of cross reached Chapman or Clough . |
| 15 | In a heart-rending telephone call to a US television station , Mrs Dragseth said the US embassy was of no help , and it seemed incompetent even to register the fact of his abduction . |
| 16 | People wanted it and it seemed to be the right thing to do — and we did it . |
| 17 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 18 | When England batted , Gooch was given out caught behind and it seemed to dispirit his team-mates ; without their hero of the previous game they looked lost , and folded for 114 all out . |
| 19 | But still her mind looked back , of its own accord , to Lajos , the harpies of the women 's magazine , Algox , and it seemed she had always been got at , and ‘ they ’ were still getting at her . |
| 20 | There was a bust of Miguel de Unamuno at the bottom of the staircase , and it seemed to have been defaced . |
| 21 | Whatever the cause , she answered his questions evasively and it seemed to me that she was making an impression she did not deserve . |
| 22 | Mrs Ross ’ s condition had deteriorated ; she had fallen out of bed and it seemed she might have suffered a further stroke . |
| 23 | Conversation was lagging , and it seemed to me that Mrs McLaren was tiring and might lose confidence . |
| 24 | The same medical model taught that both male and female had to produce the fluids necessary to conceive a child , and it seemed obvious that this occurred , in both sexes , with orgasm . |
| 25 | Then the alley curved sharply , first one way and then the other , and it seemed to Frankie that he would be trapped in that sinister place for ever . |
| 26 | And it seemed that within three months of going to see her , the bingeing and fasting , and endless weighing myself and despairing at my size , had stopped . |
| 27 | Untaught , he did what he could ; and it seemed to many of his colleagues , professionals or not , that he sometimes played at it , doing the things he thought secret agents did , even when they were unnecessary . |
| 28 | I thought of Angela Brickell 's death and of the attacks on Harry and me and it seemed that all three had had one purpose , which was to keep things as they were . |
| 29 | Sam had heard all this before and it seemed mightily irrelevant to the business in hand . |
| 30 | They had looked to be a one-pace crew in practice and it seemed as though they had no answer to Oxford 's attack . |