Example sentences of "seem [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay for what seemed hours on the bed , sustained only by cups of tea brought by an auxiliary nurse . |
| 2 | Then , it seemed hours later , when he sensed or smelt or somehow divined that he was almost at the road , there came , as likely as not out of his own imagination , the delicate sound of an indrawn breath . |
| 3 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 4 | After about five minutes we went into the final check room where we stayed for what seemed ages , most of us in our pre-race trances now , nobody speaking , just moving about , staying loose . |
| 5 | It seemed ages before they sorted out the time . |
| 6 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 7 | After what seemed ages , Dustin thought he might be willing to co-star in John and Mary if only in gratitude for the bit of play-doctoring the two visitors had done . |
| 8 | It seemed ages since he 'd had anything to eat . |
| 9 | He recurled and waited , for what seemed ages . |
| 10 | them it , it seemed ages before they were going to be on their |
| 11 | Michele 's silvery-green eyes seemed to look straight into her brain , and for what seemed minutes , but could only have been split-seconds , Luce stood paralysed , before shaking her head . |
| 12 | By now , Joan Sims and Ken seemed birds of a feather . |
| 13 | To encounter a hairy elephant would be alarming ; but the dinosaurs caught and have held the imagination of us all because they seemed dragons . |
| 14 | It seemed ears ago now . |
| 15 | The universities there seemed models for British ones , and gradually the feeling gained ground that Germany was the intellectual centre of Europe — in science , in philosophy , in classical studies , in theology and in history Germans were making the running . |
| 16 | When at last she looked up , it seemed days , weeks later . |
| 17 | It seemed years . |
| 18 | It seemed years , ages later when she found herself picking up pieces of broken plate and wiping fried egg off the tiles — so that Gran , when she returned , would find the kitchen tidy . |
| 19 | Already the train-ride seemed years distant , like Wellport , like old age . |
| 20 | A genre that had grown out of the need for sensationalism did seem to be striking chords at a time of economic insecurity when cities seemed places of dislocation and when , if nothing else , there was a curiosity about how law-breakers operated . |
| 21 | When you stood in the Jungle , the house seemed dimensions away , as if , in order to get back indoors , you had to alter the way your mind worked , you had to think your way back in . |
| 22 | I scanned the faces of the two men who , suddenly , seemed strangers . |
| 23 | While there were fluctuations , it seemed officers in charge did not draw attention to the periods when dependency levels were lighter . |
| 24 | And the colours of the sky above them in the evening were ever-changing blues , greys and pinks so that the flamingos seemed reflections of it sometimes . |
| 25 | Some stores had started cutting prices before Christmas , but then it seemed customers were keeping their money in their pockets . |
| 26 | At the time it seemed things could get no worse but , inexorably , they did . |
| 27 | Just when it seemed things were going his way again this has happened . ’ |
| 28 | 'E 's keen on 'er , and she seemed ti be fond of 'im till 'e asked for 'er in wedlock . ’ |
| 29 | Heavens , that seemed light-years away . |
| 30 | There seemed grounds for believing that the Thatcher government was , at least for a time , losing direction . |