Example sentences of "[pron] seemed [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No other flowers were in the garden , yet I seemed to smell the strong scent of nicotiana . |
| 2 | Yet I seemed to hear the distant cheers , as each Province selected its king and the champions of Ulster , Leinster , Connaught and Munster set out for Tara and the kingship trials . |
| 3 | We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance . |
| 4 | At 11 o'clock de Castelnau , by now in receipt of further intelligence which seemed to presage the total collapse of the defence on the Right Bank , was back in Joffre 's office . |
| 5 | The room was gloomy , filled with massive , mahogany furniture and pervaded by a musty smell which seemed to characterise the whole house . |
| 6 | When our love was young , we would exchange presents — small tokens , often meaningless in themselves , but which seemed to enclose the very essence of their donor . |
| 7 | During the 1970s there was a China boom in Japan which seemed to evoke the old image of China as a source of civilization and ideas . |
| 8 | The upper half of the front door was a stained glass window which seemed to emphasize the cloistered atmosphere of the deserted road . |
| 9 | THROUGHOUT the mid-1980s a fierce battle raged for control of Daimler-Benz , the luxury-car maker which seemed to epitomise the industrial prowess of a resurgent West Germany . |
| 10 | More significantly , perhaps , he revealed to Edward that there was much opposition in Normandy to the fiscal oppression of the Valois administration and the centralizing policies which seemed to threaten the provincial liberties of the duchy . |
| 11 | She was facing the window , but did not see me beyond its screen because she was staring at Matthew McIllvanney who seemed to fill the whole room with his malevolence . |
| 12 | Carson liked her because she seemed to display the ideal mix of warmth and distance that made a good neighbour . |
| 13 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 14 | But she seemed to accept the Glaswegian accent and his story of having left Scotland for London in his teens . |
| 15 | No one seemed to like the dry enervating and dusty climate of the Hollywood hills . |
| 16 | ‘ Everyone was frantic to get out but no one seemed to know the quickest way . |
| 17 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 18 | Still , at Evanston , he allowed the personal meeting to count — with Hungarian Christians oppressed in a satellite state , with a black South African who merely by being there seemed to make the Afrikaaner defence of apartheid incompatible with Christianity . |
| 19 | They seemed to enjoy the whole thing a hundred times more than your average blasé concert-goer . ’ |
| 20 | The important British companies , from Korda 's London Films to Goldcrest , have attracted capital at a point where they seemed to understand the economic need to balance Hollywood extravagance with a strong dose of parsimony , but all have ended up committing suicide by spending huge sums of money on attempts to emulate Hollywood . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is an oddity that he seemed to see the criminal justice system as being the only aspect of the environment that influences individual decisions about whether it is worthwhile to commit crime or not . |
| 22 | The eyes smouldered for a moment at the impertinence , then he seemed to see the funny side and chuckled hoarsely . |
| 23 | He seemed to like the easy life down there in Alba , or feasting with Popes and with Emperors further south . |
| 24 | He was so large that he seemed to fill the tiny area with his presence , and as he sat down his knees brushed hers beneath the table . |
| 25 | He seemed to hear the gravelly voice of Cameron-Hyde the one-eyed history master discoursing on the origins of the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 26 | Already he seemed to have the reassuring kind of manner one associated with being a doctor . |
| 27 | He seemed to regard the New Testament as a stormy sea in which he was tossed about in a little boat as he explored . |
| 28 | It seemed to represent the last word as a model for other cities to follow . |
| 29 | Thunder crashed … and the sound of it seemed to fill the whispered voice with dread . |
| 30 | But , initially at least , it seemed to express the right kinds of sentiment . |