Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] it seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |
| 2 | Why they did not use them in a manner that would almost certainly have sealed the fate of the French at Verdun seems to us almost incredible , and so indeed it seemed to contemporary German critics . |
| 3 | How we used to look forward to it and how long it seemed to be in coming . |
| 4 | Never being lost for words had always been one of Rory 's great talents , but right now it seemed to have deserted her completely , and she was forced to look away from his dark , probing eyes , horribly aware of his apparent ability to see straight through her . |
| 5 | From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’ |
| 6 | I had been touched by his kindness to my aunts , though later on it seemed more like arrogance than virtue . |