Example sentences of "[pers pn] seemed [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linda Bloomfield , chief executive of Merseyside TEC , said : ‘ Businessmen 's time is in short supply so taking the show to them seemed a logical idea . ’ |
| 2 | She seemed a thoughtful person , someone of like nature to Mary Smith , but with much more up top . |
| 3 | She seemed a typical product of her upper-middle-class background in Westchester County . |
| 4 | She seemed a brazen hussy ! ’ |
| 5 | Because she seemed a nice woman and had had a nice mother , with whom she seemed to get on well . |
| 6 | He says : ‘ She seemed a happy person on the surface but underneath she had been deeply affected by her parents ’ divorce . ’ |
| 7 | She seemed a charming girl to me . |
| 8 | A pulse of light slid over Fincara 's face , and the long green eyes were so alight , so blazingly concentrated , that she seemed a different woman . |
| 9 | Her eyes , despite her years , still held their fire and , though her figure had thickened somewhat , to Katherine 's young eyes she seemed the very embodiment of the word regal . |
| 10 | We seemed a million miles from the Weddell Sea and that ice-encrusted vessel , but I had a feeling now that this was all a part of the voyage to come . |
| 11 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 12 | Indeed , there was a moment when they seemed the oldest eyes in the world . |
| 13 | At first sight they seemed an ill-assorted pair . |
| 14 | He seemed a sinister character with his long snout and bony body , alert , watchful , suspicious . |
| 15 | ‘ He seemed a kindly person , not in the least severe . |
| 16 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 17 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 18 | In a red cloak I saw him go , His back was bent , his step was slow , And as he laboured through the cold He seemed a hundred winters old . |
| 19 | The last time he called on us after his exhibition at Keighley he seemed a new man , with a delight in having found himself in his painting and amazement that it also gave pleasure to so many others . |
| 20 | Wattana had beaten Parrott in four major events this season and he seemed a good bet to improve this record when he established a 2–0 lead . |
| 21 | He seemed a useful source where Dysart 's Oxford days were concerned . |
| 22 | For a while he seemed a shy figure hovering on the borders of a conversation , longing to take part in it , to belong . |
| 23 | The next evening my father was brought home in a German car , but he seemed a broken man . |
| 24 | He seemed a courtly gentleman with the inbred manners of a diplomat . |
| 25 | He seemed an unlikely executive for someone as American as Martinez since he was the product of an elite public school , followed by an equally elite advertising agency . |
| 26 | He seemed an interesting kind of man . |
| 27 | He seemed an interesting sort of man this morning . ’ |
| 28 | He seemed the very distillation of the forest . |
| 29 | In September 1890 Ellis 's declaration at Bala on behalf of a Welsh legislative assembly made a strong , though transient , impression : he seemed the very embodiment of ‘ Young Wales ’ . |
| 30 | That 's why it seemed no bad idea for somebody to know where I was yesterday afternoon . ’ |