Example sentences of "seemed [to-vb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He crossed the room then slowly lowered himself to his knees before the great tablet , conscious of how the gold leaf of the Ywe Lung seemed to flow in the wavering light of the candles ; how the red lacquer of the background seemed to burn . |
| 2 | The moon was high overhead — a bright , full moon that seemed to float in the dark mirror of the water . |
| 3 | He too had been influenced by Lyell , and as early as 1855 had published a paper commenting on the fact that new species always seemed to appear in the same neighbourhood as a closely related existing species . |
| 4 | They seemed to glow in the flickering green-gold gold light , as if embraced by a holy nimbus . |
| 5 | Kenilworth was very different from Warwick ; a great red sandstone ruin that almost seemed to glow in the curious half-light as the storm clouds rolled nearer . |
| 6 | Her long blonde hair , freshly washed , seemed to glow in the dull light from the chandeliers . |
| 7 | Around her neck , the white-on-white semi-circle of scar tissue seemed to glow in the dim light , like something itself luminous . |
| 8 | The sentence seemed to hang in the still air with the thin grey smoke escaping from his lips . |
| 9 | That last dangerous statement seemed to hang in the sunlit air between them for a very long time . |
| 10 | The sentence seemed to hang in the cold morning air with the whisp of vapour it had left behind . |
| 11 | His olive skin seemed to glint in the soft light of the hallway ; the flat behind him was almost totally dark . |
| 12 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 13 | The stones in a wall seemed to ripen in the hot sunshine . |
| 14 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 15 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 16 | ‘ Primarily , it was attacking that extraordinary wave of nostalgia that seemed to occur in the early and mid-Sixties for how great it was in the war . |
| 17 | In contrast , lack of public concern , the absence of legislation and departmental procedures , and a general lack of professional concern seemed to conspire in the opposite direction with regard to this elderly woman . |