Example sentences of "seemed [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet his curiosity as to Jaq 's request seemed to proceed from reasonable concern rather than from the paranoia which often afflicted rulers . |
| 2 | In 1987 a team of scientists found small amounts of diamonds in meteorites which , because of their composition , seemed to come from interstellar space . |
| 3 | She had , it appeared , been out on the knocker , ‘ like all of you , ladies and gentlemen ’ , an activity which seemed to meet with universal approval . |
| 4 | The afternoon and evening seemed to pass with agonizing slowness , yet , when the time came for Maurice 's departure , it felt to Charlotte as if it had crept up and taken them by surprise . |
| 5 | Like the dimensions of stone circles , the weights of these objects seemed to peak in definite weight bands , suggesting that they were made to preset weight specifications . |
| 6 | Finally , the remaining three components seemed to consist of uninterpretable noise . |
| 7 | A local region of space itself seemed to writhe in superheated paroxysm , tearing the Titan apart into a maelstrom of spinning vapour . |
| 8 | He fell , and the Manchu 's final stroke seemed to descend with unstoppable fury . |
| 9 | On the one hand some psycholinguistic data seemed to point to word-by-word recognition ( Cole & Jakimik 1980 ; Marslen-Wilson & Welsh 1978 ) . |
| 10 | But my spine seemed to turn to cold stone when I saw two other groups converging on the scene of combat . |
| 11 | Now everything seemed to happen at top speed . |
| 12 | Most would agree , with hindsight , that everything seemed to happen in slow motion , during and after the murder . |
| 13 | He looked like one of the carefree devils he had carved , with his fat , cheery face , snub nose and large blue eyes which seemed to dance with wicked merriment . |
| 14 | It happened in a flash , although in retrospect everything seemed to occur in slow motion , as though I were watching from another planet . |
| 15 | The blood from my wound ran over my back and chest , and the knife seemed to burn like hot iron . |
| 16 | These notions of space and time seemed to correspond to common sense and reality . |