Example sentences of "that he seemed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so large that he seemed to fill the tiny area with his presence , and as he sat down his knees brushed hers beneath the table . |
| 2 | ‘ Edwin was always a joker but the point was that he seemed to undervalue his own work and to think less of my judgement because I did not . |
| 3 | Indeed , it is an oddity that he seemed to see the criminal justice system as being the only aspect of the environment that influences individual decisions about whether it is worthwhile to commit crime or not . |
| 4 | He varied his dancing routine with occasional headlong gallops round the lawn and it was after he had done about ten successive laps that he seemed to decide he ought to do something about the bitch . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's right , ’ I said , pleased that he seemed to understand at last . |
| 6 | You may wonder why it is reported that He seemed to resent them , which may suggest that he was unable to express his own resentment , which may limit your range of potential interpretations of the expression He . |
| 7 | And the fact that he seemed to accept the failure of his play , which in previous years would have depressed and unnerved him , is further evidence that he was now a more sanguine man . |
| 8 | Fabia declared , stoutly , it somehow not sitting very well at all that he seemed to think of her as a child . |
| 9 | Ellwood 's clothes were so neutral in colour , so commonplace in style , that he seemed to fade as he dressed . |
| 10 | His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics . |
| 11 | She 'd thought before that he seemed used to power , and looking at him now only served to strengthen that feeling . |
| 12 | Gooch recalled playing against Waqar at Chelmsford : ‘ The first impression was that he seemed to have a very long run-up but he is obviously a very fine fast bowler with the ability to swing , particularly the old ball . ’ |
| 13 | It struck her that he seemed to have tacked himself on to the others . |
| 14 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 15 | They found her drawings and watercolours too like his own and he disguised his embarrassment by joking to her that he seemed to have cornered the nut-tree market . |
| 16 | The reality was that he seemed to have been forgotten and nothing was going to serve as a reminder unless the kidnappers broke their silence . |
| 17 | Camille herself — the Camille whom Camille was used to — merely noted exasperatedly that he seemed to have had plenty of time yesterday , sitting round in the cafe all morning . |
| 18 | ‘ The oddest thing was that he seemed to have no interest in Mandela at all . |
| 19 | His face was so familiar that he seemed to have been with the production for weeks . |
| 20 | He made no attempt to present her to the other man , however , apparently so deep in thought that he seemed to have forgotten her very existence . |
| 21 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 22 | There were brief explorations across her warm , soft cheek , her eyes , her nose , but always , always , he returned to that sweet source that he seemed to find so fascinating — until eventually , light-years later , he lifted his head . |