Example sentences of "seemed [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 2 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 3 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 4 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 5 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 6 | Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock . |
| 7 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 8 | His voice seemed to fill the few inches ' space between them , bringing them even closer . |
| 9 | And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did . |
| 10 | However , chimpanzees raised in the wild seemed to have no such difficulties , presumably because they had had plenty of opportunity to observe copulation in other chimpanzees and so had learnt how to perform it themselves . |
| 11 | When they had left , Julia wondered whether to say anything or not , but David seemed to have no such inhibitions . |
| 12 | And Selvey 's summing-up was worthy of a high court judge : very frivolous , and most them marginal , but only five of the 34 wickets were leg-before and even those were of an apparently arbitrary nature : those given seemed to have no more merit than many that were not . ’ |
| 13 | Furthermore the resulting " socialist man " seemed to have the same needs as his capitalist counterpart for material goods , especially those based on energy and materially intensive technologies . |
| 14 | Indeed western European governments in general seemed to take the same view . |
| 15 | His voice only seemed to travel a few feet , then it stopped dead . |
| 16 | The unexpected development seemed to make no more sense than the feather and the note ; or , for that matter , the glass ball . |