Example sentences of "seemed as [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet he was such a skilful flyer that to an American of the Lafayette Squadron it seemed as if a plane obeyed his thoughts rather than the controls , and at Verdun alone he shot down six German aircraft and a balloon . |
| 2 | She spread hay over him for warmth , but it seemed as if the fever would shake him to pieces . |
| 3 | At the time it seemed as if the government had crushed the nationalist movement by locking up its leaders for life . |
| 4 | It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away . |
| 5 | For a time it seemed as if the Everqueen of Avelorn was lost and the realm with her . |
| 6 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 7 | It seemed as if the phone itself was in paroxysm , all squawk and splat like a cabby 's radio . |
| 8 | It seemed as if the end of the world had come . |
| 9 | Surprisingly little drink was enough to intoxicate him but it seemed as if the wine released the power in him . |
| 10 | It seemed as if the woman in the adjacent chair had shuffled herself closer . |
| 11 | Not so long ago it seemed as if the world was to divide into three main trading blocks : the EC based around the West German economy ; a Northern American block based around the US-Canadian free trade area , and a Pacific unit incorporating the Asian tigers with Japan and the yen at the centre . |
| 12 | It seemed as if the world had stopped to listen . |
| 13 | Still looking down , it seemed as if the pattern of squares was moving . |
| 14 | At the end of September it seemed as if the monsoon was drawing to a close . |
| 15 | ‘ But truly , after Isabelle 's departure , it often seemed as if the family had been cursed . ’ |
| 16 | When the coin flipped over , it seemed as if the punishment would be never-ending . |