Example sentences of "that he seemed to " in BNC.

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1 He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop .
2 The press and the experts had put the monkey on his back that he could n't win a major , that he seemed to be ‘ choking on Sundays ’ .
3 The irritating thing was that he seemed to be unaware of the beneficial effects of AZT , or the creative potential of AIDS sufferers .
4 Tralhaut comments that he seemed to be almost glorying in his failure to break down the barriers and ‘ storm the fortress ’ of his love 's frozen heart .
5 It was disappointing , though , that he seemed to be knocking the efforts of those with other aims : ‘ How can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? ’
6 ‘ Only that he seemed to be in a decent position , and that he died . ’
7 Only centimetres from his eyes and mouth , the hydra blurred and soaked up his voice so that he seemed to be shouting underwater .
8 In the course of explaining his various duties to Virginia Woolf he confessed that he seemed to be turning into an " Old Buffer " and wondered if he might not also be guilty of humbug .
9 She settled him in his chair , and was relieved to see that he seemed to be calming down a little .
10 I had nothing against Dr Hill , except that he seemed to me an entirely incongruous appointment that Harold had made for the wrong reasons .
11 He was a very successful , very good-looking professional in his mid-thirties — just as Tom Russell was , although that was irrelevant , of course — and to find that he seemed to be interested in her was satisfying somehow .
12 Not that he seemed to mind in the slightest , she acknowledged wryly , forced to bite her lips in silence every time the actress materialised apparently from nowhere to spirit Dane away .
13 She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off .
14 Though Amiss was not entirely convinced that Trueman had been murdered , he did feel a sense of unease about the Admiral 's safety , so he was relieved to see that he seemed to be getting on rather better with his committee colleagues than the Sunday experiences had promised .
15 There was a cool mockery in his deep voice , and she turned to glare at him , hating him for the fact that he seemed to be deriving amusement from her discomfort .
16 She glanced at David and wryly saw that he seemed to be listening to this conversation with great interest .
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