Example sentences of "[prep] they seemed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The space between them seemed to be almost solid , you could see it had edges . |
| 2 | The patients had all been washed and set up in their chairs and most of them seemed to be almost asleep . |
| 3 | In these circumstances , a determined mother could be free to groom herself , hold office in this or that community activity , or find a job , in order to fulfil herself ; though none of them seemed to be able to explain why acting as a bank teller or the secretary of a charity , for example , was more fulfilling than looking after their own children . |
| 4 | As they watched , a tall tree in front of them seemed to be burning with a white flame . |
| 5 | The only things that might have been classed as narrative were the poems , and they did n't seem to have anything to do with each other , apart from the fact a lot of them seemed to be vaguely about Death , or Love . |
| 6 | All of them seemed to be on rather intimate terms with the proprietress , who was a very handsome , dark-haired woman , tall and well-built , with penetrating eyes . |
| 7 | But while I spotted eighteen known spies in my first glance around , none of them seemed to me focused on me . |
| 8 | Most of them seemed to be the kind that took the prepaid cards that he never had , but there were a couple of pay booths at the end of the row and he made for those . |
| 9 | All of them seemed to be toy shops . |
| 10 | Half the board raised their own flagons in answer — most of them seemed to be Hearthwares — and they answered him thunderously , Ratagan loudest of all . |
| 11 | Neither of them seemed to be emergencies , as the callers had n't asked for immediate aid . |
| 12 | Some of them seemed to be actually sobbing . |
| 13 | Most of them seemed to be going in search of tea and for a moment , she hesitated . |
| 14 | ‘ Kitty disappeared off the face of the earth and then without warning turned up in Whitechapel with a man in a motor car ; neither of them seemed to be hers but she looked very pleased with life . ’ |
| 15 | The German prostitutes were terribly clean and efficient and not one of them seemed in the least turned on by what they were doing . |
| 16 | Many of them seemed like tiny oases hemmed in by the alien rubber which overran the entire peninsula . |
| 17 | At the same time they saw a causal link between the predicament of the peasants and their own frustrations ; the political , social , and cultural constrictions which impinged directly upon them seemed to be the product of a society based upon oppression of the masses . |