Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] 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 | Something in that dark brown gaze of his seemed to be able to squeeze the truth out of her . |
18 | It was a very small patch , about the size of a postage stamp , and the two sides of it seemed to be splitting down the middle and opening slowly outwards , like a pair of shutters on some tiny window . |
19 | The snow was driving down now but even through that whirling vortex of frozen city detritus , none of it seemed to be making any impression on those glistening black pavements or the tarmac . |
20 | But the gist of it seemed to be that there should be an early , and preferably unpleasant , end to the miserable life of the blasphemer and pig-fancier , Wilson . |
21 | The skirt is definite , you know , so many pleats , uhum , so obviously that is and the blazer 's static , but quite a lot of it seemed to be fairly , you know , instead of grey , either the school track suit or just a grey track suit , so uhum , which it is , it 's all these little bits like . |
22 | Lifting her out of the water we were totally silent , and neither of us seemed to be willing to commit ourselves on a weight so we just put her in the sling and let the scales do the talking . |
23 | And er some of us seemed to be more awkward than others , I mean some people 's feet when you look at them and , and areas like that , that , you think well why did Jehovah make them like that , they 're so ugly and yet without them where would we be ? |
24 | Some of us seemed to be awkward and the truth , new and the truth , inexperienced , others seemed to be so polished do n't they ? |
25 | The footsteps behind her seemed to be hurrying , almost as if they were trying to catch her up . |
26 | The shrine and the whole house shook and the ground beneath it seemed to be shifting away as though in an earthquake . |
27 | Going along with him seemed to be the best way of getting rid of him . |
28 | Everything inside me seemed to be fine . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | When Albert missed the child most urgently , the refusal of money for him seemed like a moral tactic to take him away forever . |