Example sentences of "seemed [adv] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Careful , Stephen , " they both seemed endlessly to have said . |
| 2 | His spirits seemed suddenly to have cleared . |
| 3 | A while ago she had felt hungry ; now her appetite seemed suddenly to have faded . |
| 4 | He seemed suddenly to have lost interest . |
| 5 | The relaxed air which had reigned in the warm little living room of Rose Cottage seemed suddenly to have evaporated . |
| 6 | Harry had only to reach out his hand to restrain him , but movement seemed suddenly to have deserted him . |
| 7 | All the still places in her life seemed suddenly to have shifted dramatically . |
| 8 | But then money , or something , seemed suddenly to have brought Gerald Seymour-Strachey from the hazy background to the centre of the picture . |
| 9 | Beside her , however , Alan seemed suddenly to have sunk back into grim-faced absorption . |
| 10 | He had assured her he would be able to lead her out of the forest , but so far they seemed only to have become tangled further in its mazy pathways . |
| 11 | By March of 1188 , Frederick seemed finally to have defeated his opponents on the major domestic and imperial fronts . |
| 12 | for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference . |
| 13 | Instead our heads turned in unison towards the dancers , among whom battle seemed already to have started . |
| 14 | And now time , which in the last ten minutes seemed mysteriously to have halted , flowed again and he was standing at his bedroom window five days later watching the great ball of the sun rise out of the sea to stain the horizon and spread over the eastern sky the veins and arteries of the new day . |
| 15 | Surrounded by the slums of Portuguese and Arab immigrants , the campus drew its students from the middle classes , but did so under an authoritarian system of education that seemed hardly to have changed in 150 years . |
| 16 | The experience had clearly chastened Mr Wormwood and he seemed temporarily to have lost his taste for boasting and bullying . |
| 17 | He reads : ’ Not that way , ’ cried his pessimistic friend grasping Toad 's arm and directing him away from the especially grim and oppressive corridor into which his laboured steps seemed automatically to have led him |
| 18 | Churchill , for this period of his life , seemed also to have inherited something of his father Randolph 's concern for social matters . |
| 19 | Even the route they had followed to this point seemed now to have closed behind them . |
| 20 | The quivering net of light from the river seemed now to have set the whole room trembling . |
| 21 | Mr Malik seemed now to have taken on board several other members of Cranborne School who were growing tired of cross-country running . |
| 22 | He seemed quite to have lost the preoccupied air that had troubled Hazel the night before . |
| 23 | He seemed completely to have forgotten that Charles had ever played the part . |
| 24 | She seemed again to have lost interest , in that swift way she had , and I felt useless and bereft . |
| 25 | The more I thought of that midnight face , the more intelligent and charming it became ; and it seemed too to have had a breeding , a fastidiousness , a delicacy , that attracted me as fatally as the local fishermen 's lamps attracted fish on moonless nights . |