Example sentences of "[pron] seemed [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , I seemed to be alive and intact . |
| 2 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 3 | The only place I seemed to be able to reach you was in bed . |
| 4 | So the only way I seemed to be able to keep Arthur was to become dependent on him . ’ |
| 5 | Something in that dark brown gaze of his seemed to be able to squeeze the truth out of her . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All of them seemed to be toy shops . |
| 8 | In the silence everyone seemed to be aware of listening ears . |
| 9 | IN THE 1970s everyone seemed to be worried about the dangers of work : Jeanne Stellman and Susan Daum , with Work is Dangerous for your Health , and Patrick Kinnersley , with The Hazards of Work , were among the authors to bring the problems to our attention . |
| 10 | Everything inside me seemed to be fine . |
| 11 | We had done our best and we lacked the peacocks , the ostriches , the slaves and the pack of hounds but nobody seemed to be worried . |
| 12 | In the centre of the carbonaceous ball I could discern a small whitish marble which seemed to be all that remained of the original vegetable . |
| 13 | Our results with western blotting contrast with those of Klein et al who identified a 65 kDa band which seemed to be specific for PSC . |
| 14 | We would decorate it with pieces of cotton wool for snow , and one or two other nice things like those shining coloured balls , which seemed to be metallic , but which were easily broken . |
| 15 | As soon as the urban context is broken down even into such crude categories as social class , age or ‘ interests ’ , processes which seemed to be peculiar to particular urban areas turn out to be determined by other factors . |
| 16 | Although the belief in growth as a value in itself , or as the remedy for the ills of society , which seemed to be prevalent in the early 1960s has given way to a more sceptical attitude , it seems clear that an understanding of the long-run consequences of tax and expenditure policy is essential . |
| 17 | Any comment which seemed to be irrelevant was accepted seriously and an appropriate question would bring the speaker 's thoughts back to the matter under discussion . |
| 18 | Soon I found a hut , which seemed to be empty , but when I entered I saw a pretty young woman asleep on the floor . |
| 19 | The crux of the debate was whether this was the most cost-effective way of meeting the demand for heating in Britain , 7 and the Boards were under considerable pressure from the Government to justify their commercial policy , which seemed to be attracting peak loads at uneconomic prices . |
| 20 | But the man himself seemed to be unconcerned about this . |
| 21 | Why has there been no mention in your mag of the Harmony company , who seemed to be one of the earliest to rely on mass-production techniques to rival the ‘ hand-built ’ approach of Martin , Gibson and Washburn in terms of sales figures and affordability ? |
| 22 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 23 | She wanted to get up and run ; run as fast and as far as she could away from this man who seemed to be intent on humiliating her . |
| 24 | She was sitting beside her father who seemed to be asleep on his back in the grass . |
| 25 | The commentators , who seemed to be pro United , were taken a little aback that at least three scum players were n't booked ( at minimum ) for bodychecking and other misc. fouls . |
| 26 | He had coolly — some even said coldly — " stood firm during the terrible onslaught of the myxomatosis , ruthlessly driving out every rabbit who seemed to be sickening . |
| 27 | The regular aircrew treated us quite well as a rule but there were one or two time serving Air Gunners who seemed to be jealous of our youth and high spirits , and the majority of the skippers were real gents who appreciated that without the National Service contingent the Washingtons could not be crewed correctly . |
| 28 | Catherine or St Catherine 's Hill itself constituted a Pandora 's box of small-town trades and occupations at the time : everything from a gingerbread maker to a hairdresser , a staymaker , a breechesmaker , Charles Tucker the coalminer , John Golledge the blind schoolmaster , Mrs Allen at the Castle public house , and even John Ward , who seemed to be able to support himself by practising the noble art of a ‘ horse jockey ’ . |
| 29 | Her sister Clare , eighteen months her junior , described her as quote , a sister who seemed to be able do everything , she had a never ending social life , I was amazed how she managed to fit everything in unquote . |
| 30 | I took it to a couple of shops who just were n't interested and then to Macaris who seemed to be interested in buying it but who were being a bit funny about it to me . |