Example sentences of "they seemed [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of them seemed anxious to comply and Trent doubted his strength would last long enough to haul Gomez against the weight of the Zodiac . |
| 2 | None of them seemed keen to be involved with the police . |
| 3 | Again the space between them seemed solid . |
| 4 | They were elicited by my questions about his earlier career , and most of them seemed new to Laura for she laughed with unfeignable gaiety , her head at moments in helpless tears against his chest . |
| 5 | In December I was interviewed on a dark evening at Trinity by a group of Fellows , one of whom wore enormous boots and all of them seemed amused by my belief that there were no good books on eighteenth-century English history . |
| 6 | He believed the nurses all fancied him , but none of them seemed willing to do anything about it . |
| 7 | The pair of them seemed pompous , arrogant and vain to the point of caricature . |
| 8 | Her duties were many , and none of them seemed onerous to her . |
| 9 | So many small rivalries existed between different cliques in the camp and so many of them seemed synthetic that it looked sometimes as if antagonism was essential to human beings as a form of self-expression . |
| 10 | They seemed expensive to her at nineteen shillings and elevenpence but the small boy loved them . |
| 11 | But they had done no harm to Timothy Gedge , and if they seemed ridiculous they could n't really help it . |
| 12 | Years ago I used to do isometric exercises because they did n't make me puff and they seemed easy . |
| 13 | It also enabled moderate Republicans to avoid an open break with Bush on the issue , and saved the Democrats from a potentially damaging veto battle which they seemed one vote short of winning and which would again have highlighted for white voters the identification of Democrats with minority issues . |
| 14 | He had had a good day at the office and his head had not troubled him ; they seemed pleased with his work ; he had been looking forward to telling her about it over supper , and now this . |
| 15 | When we protested that ours was a dirt track and not a paved city street , they seemed uncertain of the rules and phoned their chief . |
| 16 | On some days they seemed absent from the area and then we would detect two or three in the course of the next patrol . |
| 17 | But when he and his family got back to their cabin they seemed upset because we had gone to so much trouble . ’ |
| 18 | There were several female faces above her and the sounds of the street still reached her though they seemed distant and somewhat muffled . |
| 19 | For their part , trade unions mostly ignored community-based groups as irrelevant , self-appointed and ephemeral ; they seemed unaware that they were becoming increasingly remote from the people who belonged to them , especially to women ( as members , and even more so as unwaged workers ) . |
| 20 | At the time , after years of wartime austerity , consumers were so relieved to sink their teeth into a nice slice of meat that they seemed content to remain in ignorance about its origins . |
| 21 | It was not the quantity of stars that was so impressive , though if there had been more they would have blended into a whitewash , nor was it their brilliance , though they were a dazzling variation of colour and size , but that they seemed alive . |
| 22 | They seemed demoralized and miserable , operating an endless mechanical process . |
| 23 | They seemed delighted that I 'd said it , and to know just what I meant . |
| 24 | They seemed unconcerned by our presence , and the ranger said they were probably deliberately moving out of our way , but once again we were reminded that , even though this part of Elgon might look like Scotland , we were still most definitely in Africa . |
| 25 | I thought about the good-hearted couple inside its walls , and suddenly they seemed unimportant . |
| 26 | They seemed playful rather than aggressive . |
| 27 | They seemed unaffected however , and threw their heads back , howling with unnatural laughter as they twisted their bodies in ever more contorted movements , some of them even brushing into one or other of the fires and continuing their dance as if they had n't noticed . |
| 28 | It seems I , oh I seemed to feel that it , it was , if we wanted to see three it was gon na upset , well they seemed that , I thought it would save money if they |
| 29 | They seemed anxious and hesitant about leaving , as if uncertain of which direction to take . |
| 30 | They seemed shocked at the suggestion . |