Example sentences of "seemed as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day it seemed as if everyone in the school knew . |
| 2 | Now , The Cheaper Sex had been out in the States for some weeks , and it seemed as if everyone under the age of twenty-one wanted a copy . |
| 3 | It seemed as if everyone was going to conform to this funeral except him . |
| 4 | Erm so it always seemed as if something else was the trigger for friendships . |
| 5 | There was a moment , as she felt the release from the flimsy protection of her undergarments , when it seemed as if something yet might stop him in the tidal wave of passion , but his intention overwhelmed any such hesitation , and with a moan of desire she put herself entirely into his hands . |
| 6 | It also seemed as if somebody up there had decided to have a laugh at the expense of an arguably premature rave by yours truly . |
| 7 | The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting . |
| 8 | He was down and sometimes it seemed as if nothing was going to shake him out of it , apart from a laugh at someone else 's expense or a shared moment of despair . |
| 9 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
| 10 | Aware of the loose board near the top of the stairs , she clung to the wall and then slipped down to the garden in shadow , barely a shadow herself , and making as little noise , though inside her head it seemed as if her heart would waken the dead with its pumping . |
| 11 | It seemed as if her silence at last unnerved her father because he turned to speak to her just before they were to walk together down the long aisle . |
| 12 | She wanted — needed him so much , in spite of everything , that it seemed as if her entire heart and soul were crying out to him . |
| 13 | Remembering the kiss he had given her after breakfast it seemed as if their relationship might at long last have changed . |
| 14 | Old feuds of race were diminishing , rivalries and prejudices were by degrees fading out.Such frequent and such intimate relations had thus been established between nations , that it seemed as if they must soon unite in one family , in one single federal state . |
| 15 | It seemed as if they were laughing now . |
| 16 | Mortgage rates increased dramatically and seemed as if they would never fall . |
| 17 | Now it seemed as if they were postponed indefinitely . |
| 18 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 19 | He beamed at them again and Caspar was beginning to relax , because it seemed as if they might escape after all and Fenella was remembering about magic being very nearly everyday here , when Pumlumon said , ‘ Of course , that 's so long as I can remember the words . ’ |
| 20 | She felt her breasts rise with her shortened breath , and it seemed as if they were straining to brush his well-developed chest . |
| 21 | It seemed as if they 'd been wrong about one thing and only too right about the other . |
| 22 | It seemed as if we were flying in the 1930s . |
| 23 | Fear often played tricks with my perception and now it seemed as if I was losing my grip of reality . |
| 24 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 25 | It seemed as if I were speaking it … |
| 26 | I did n't accept er the opportunity to retire and take it easy , it seemed as if I had worked twenty seven years for nothing ! |
| 27 | All the time , we were making love as we wrote our poems , in a great wave of inspiration and tenderness that seemed as if it could never end . |
| 28 | It almost seemed as if it was moving further away with each stride . |
| 29 | For much of Act I , too , Jonathan Summers 's Posa seemed as if it was to be a rough-and-ready performance by this gifted baritone . |
| 30 | This college seemed as if it was going to be the best thing that happened to me . |