Example sentences of "[pers pn] seemed [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed pleased with the room . |
| 2 | She seemed oblivious of the echo this might find in her own daughter 's life . |
| 3 | The chance of Damien Gould helping her seemed unlikely in the extreme , unless she could apply pressure on him . |
| 4 | On some days they seemed absent from the area and then we would detect two or three in the course of the next patrol . |
| 5 | They seemed shocked at the suggestion . |
| 6 | They seemed angry with the therapist although were not saying this openly . |
| 7 | He seemed pleased with the analogy . |
| 8 | But he seemed unaware of the darkness at the back of everything . |
| 9 | He seemed unaware of the noise Damian was making . |
| 10 | There were other confusions — he was vain , she could smile at that , and yet many times he seemed unaware of the effect his strong presence could have on others . |
| 11 | When she glanced back at him he seemed comfortable with the silence , watching the rain and the lake , his blue eyes , not so different in colour from that storm-tossed lake , appreciative and thoughtful . |
| 12 | Dismissing Paisley 's support as ‘ a fascist organization masquerading under the cloak of religion … deluding a lot of sincere people … hell-bent on provoking religious strife in Northern Ireland ’ , he seemed unprepared for the reaction against him within his own party . |
| 13 | He seemed less of the dictator than he had appeared to her yesterday ! |
| 14 | ‘ Azor ! ’ he seemed surprised by the question . |
| 15 | When she asked him he seemed astonished by the question . |
| 16 | but he seemed alright at the weekend , he was decorating at the weekend |
| 17 | He seemed alright at the moment , though , and his stroking was even and relaxed . |
| 18 | Two inscriptions from the early fourth century show that it did not always do so ( Tod 103 , 108 = WV 7 , HD 20 ) : they have the unusual opening formula ‘ it seemed good to the Council ’ . |
| 19 | The normal formula is ‘ it seemed good to the Council and People ’ , indicating that the decree had been prepared for the Assembly ( ‘ the people ’ ) by the Council , and was then voted on by the Assembly . |
| 20 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |
| 21 | It seemed cheap at the price — five guineas for travel and a month 's board and lodging . |
| 22 | I appreciate the arguments that go on nowadays , but let us not forget that the old crossings were not suitable for the disabled , which is why , in the case to which I am referring , it seemed unnecessary for the authority to insist on a ramp being built . |
| 23 | It seemed remote to the point of impossibility . |
| 24 | It seemed impossible to reconcile the ideal of the simple monastic life with a great religious order , just as it seemed impossible for the papacy to exercise leadership without becoming an autocratic bureaucracy . |
| 25 | ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability . |
| 26 | The monarch twice interrupted journeys to give a royal address and complained it seemed unworthy of the birthplace of railways . |
| 27 | In addition , since the Directive did not define investors , it seemed conclusive to the Court that it was not intended to give them enforceable rights . |
| 28 | All at once one of the birds — it seemed enormous to the child , but may well have been as small as a sparrow — flew into the air and fluttered past the pushchair , its wings actually brushing the little girl 's face . |
| 29 | It seemed worried about the power of alternative media , beyond its control , to give interpretations different from those it wanted put over . |