Example sentences of "it seemed [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to do things for him — it seemed to give some purpose to her life to have somebody depending even a little on her . |
| 2 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 3 | It seemed to create that relationship , that tension between the audience and the performers which you got in a theatre , in a music-hall , but not usually in a cinema . |
| 4 | This had the effect of making the differences between owl and diurnal raptor digestion appear greater than it really is , and it seemed to confirm earlier reports of minimal effects of digestion in owls ( Reed & Reed , 1928 ; Duke et al . , |
| 5 | The more of these properties a dummy possessed the more strongly it was mobbed , but it seemed to make little difference whether the object was a stuffed owl with real plumage or an owl-shaped piece of painted wood . |
| 6 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 7 | ‘ It seemed to make more sense than having Rib Shacks in Reading and Rugby or elsewhere , ’ he said . |
| 8 | It seemed to blend best Newman 's two dictates for the show . |
| 9 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 10 | Again , it seemed to complete earlier laws on the matter dating back to Magna Carta in its 1217 version . |
| 11 | It seemed to have more life than the photograph . ’ |
| 12 | It was a big machine which I think had not been set up right — it seemed to have more blades than necessary . |