Example sentences of "[adv] it seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it seemed all important to get rid of the terrible thing . |
| 2 | To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them . ’ |
| 3 | Suddenly it seemed she had no one to talk to . |
| 4 | Suddenly it seemed to Honor that a bond was being forged between them . |
| 5 | But suddenly it seemed to become very angry with the English visitor , who was talking to it . |
| 6 | Suddenly it seemed that all the news was good . |
| 7 | Quite suddenly it seemed fitting that the suit of her husband should garb a man who had slaughtered his brides : there was in that , somewhere , a gleam of relevance . |
| 8 | She did love Alexander , deeply and passionately , and suddenly it seemed quite natural to say so , in spite of the fact that it was only so recently that she had dared to look her love in the face . |
| 9 | The intensity of her response to him a minute ago filled her with self-loathing , but she was afraid too , because suddenly it seemed as if hatred was no longer enough to counter the threat he presented , and yet it was the only answer she possessed . |
| 10 | Suddenly it seemed to her as if the whole world wanted to know about every detail of her life . |
| 11 | His smile was open and friendly , and suddenly it seemed preposterous to be standing here , on a Roman street corner , arguing with a man who had taken her from an existence that she 'd hated to one that was all she 'd ever dreamed of . |
| 12 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
| 13 | I , I was n't watching while at the time , but erm basically it seemed like it was six of one and half a dozen of the other . |
| 14 | How we used to look forward to it and how long it seemed to be in coming . |
| 15 | How long it seemed since she 'd had a touch of glamour in her life ! |
| 16 | As she sat down it seemed as if all the growing things drew round , sheltering her . |
| 17 | When the , the laundry was knocked down it seemed to be the end of an era that er , it did n't seem to be like park much longer . |
| 18 | Brian Cowie said : ‘ It was the Ipswich branch of CAMRA which mounted a publicity campaign to save the brewery and so it seemed appropriate that the launch of Pride should be at the festival . ’ |
| 19 | All the mosquitoes in the orchard were in my trench last night , or so it seemed ! |
| 20 | To adopt her favourite adverbs , everything had been ‘ totally and utterly ’ transformed , or so it seemed . |
| 21 | And so it seemed . |
| 22 | The Land Campaign , or so it seemed to the Conservatives , threatened to wipe out those gains at a time when the party showed no signs of an electoral recovery elsewhere . |
| 23 | So it seemed a fairly straightforward move to go and work for the family firm . |
| 24 | After ten minutes or so it seemed to end satisfactorily . |
| 25 | Finally , after a desert journey of Lawrencian proportions — or so it seemed — we reached the base of Ingólfshöfdi . |
| 26 | The contrast was stark , an area devoid of anything green , or so it seemed from the air . |
| 27 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 28 | And so it seemed . |
| 29 | If , as implied although not explicitly stated in the Origin , man was descended from other animals , it was no longer possible , or so it seemed , to regard human behaviour as the product of the will , and at the same time to accept Descartes 's view that animals are machines . |
| 30 | His heart began to make a terrible noise , or so it seemed to him . |