Example sentences of "seemed [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This new assessment of his home marked an important casting off , a kind of liberation , and if in later years Ottery remained symbolically important to Coleridge , that was only because his recollections of the shaping years of childhood all seemed to gather at the town . |
| 2 | It seemed to work at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ But we seemed to freeze at the start , ’ conceded Nicholl . |
| 4 | They seemed to bend at the knee , setting their feet apart so that they could never be off balance when they moved . |
| 5 | Serfdom seemed to lie at the root of many of their own frustrations , to preclude progress , be it economic , social , or political . |
| 6 | When Luke called her heart seemed to expand at the look of admiration that slipped over his face as his gaze took in her simple cream suit in thick , crunchy lace , the severe black camisole she wore beneath it , but he merely murmured , ‘ Punctual as always . |
| 7 | His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics . |
| 8 | They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners . |
| 9 | An interim experiment took place in 1981 with tubes of brine shrimp , which are sensitive to changes in the magnetic field : they seemed to cluster at the end of the tube which was nearest the stones . |
| 10 | seemed to hurt at the sight . |
| 11 | Holly heard him shift on his bunk and the mattress seemed to belch at the movement . |