Example sentences of "seemed [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , reading week was , it seemed for ages , was n't it ? |
| 2 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 3 | Whiskers or not it seemed worth signing . |
| 4 | Even phonology seemed worth while now , whispering the sounds of time into the very material that poets used , the vowels jealously mutating , angrily fracturing as consonant groups shifted to their conditioned cues in wild adenoidal ecstasies . |
| 5 | It seemed about par for the course , so I applied , was interviewed and then offered the job , all in reasonably quick time . |
| 6 | When the light seemed about right , striking fire out of the broken bits of china and glass , they went to work . |
| 7 | Cornelius thought seven seemed about right . |
| 8 | He certainly seemed below par in the few mid-season matches last year , but the whole team looked poor in those . |
| 9 | Canford Manor in Dorset , built by Sir Charles Barry in 1848–52 , is not unlike St Genevieve , ‘ a gathering as it seemed of galleries , halls , and chapels , mullioned windows , portals of clustered columns , and groups of airy pinnacles and fretwork spires ’ . |
| 10 | While the latter belongs to a separate organizational dimension , it seemed of interest to test the feasibility of addressing the issues that the ‘ community ’ approach might raise . |
| 11 | In his investigations he was like an explorer in an unknown country , examining everything that seemed of interest . |
| 12 | He guessed a lot of young people had : the few faces on the street seemed of retirement age . |
| 13 | ‘ Yours , of course , ’ said Mrs Harper , grimly : so grimly that her reply seemed like wit . |
| 14 | It seemed like fate . |
| 15 | It seemed like fate at the time — as though I were specially meant to meet him . |
| 16 | Meantime , civilisation seemed like light-years away . |
| 17 | We lay still for what seemed like ages , my eyes were riveted to the figures lying in the road . |
| 18 | After what seemed like ages we popped out of the cloud and confirmed our dead-reckoned position as overhead the airfield of Vila Real , where we would have landed but it had no avgas . |
| 19 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 20 | She sat like that for what seemed like ages while I tramped round the room , nervous and on edge and blabbering with the excitement . |
| 21 | It seemed like ages . |
| 22 | It seemed like ages before he came back again , and when he did , she pounced on him . |
| 23 | Fen kept going for what seemed like ages and , despite his statement that they had to talk , he seemed disinclined for conversation . |
| 24 | I remember digging for what seemed like hours to lift those bulbs , so make sure you plant them where they will not need to be moved and allow ample room for their growth . |
| 25 | It seemed like hours . |
| 26 | but it seemed like hours . |
| 27 | We went on for what seemed like hours and still none of us understood . |
| 28 | I watched with my breath held tight for what seemed like hours , but then I panicked , and let go . |
| 29 | After what seemed like hours his tearful mother joined him in the hospital foyer . |
| 30 | They sat there for what seemed like hours , although it was only minutes . |