Example sentences of "[noun sg] seemed [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The question seemed to amuse him in some way .
2 The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother !
3 Pronouncing the word seemed to bring him to his senses .
4 But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness .
5 The activity seemed to rouse him from his stupor .
6 He broke off , apparently only to finish his drink , but then as he sat hunched in his chair contemplating his empty glass some overpowering depression seemed to crush him into silence .
7 At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson .
8 But he made little effort to develop this outside his own definitions of the genealogical method , while his shift into the problematics of power seemed to lead him into a labyrinth from which it was virtually impossible to extract himself .
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