Example sentences of "seemed [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed racked with emotion . |
| 2 | Diamonds formed the wide mouth so that the little creature seemed to grin with light . |
| 3 | Her whole body seemed to tingle with expectation . |
| 4 | When he did , he seemed to agree with Weinberger and Shultz . |
| 5 | She had kept this plant for many years and whenever we had light showers it was popped outside , a treatment that seemed to agree with it . |
| 6 | Benny and Eve watched fascinated , as he shook his head sorrowfully and seemed to agree with something that had been said to him . |
| 7 | ‘ Heads must roll ’ screamed the headlines in a paper that had , before the game , seemed to agree with the selection of the national side . |
| 8 | When Edmund Wilson attended a performance of The Confidential Clerk , however , he found it " rudimentary " ; everyone in London seemed to agree with him but , he said , " respect for Eliot had made it impossible for anyone to commit himself by printing a sincere opinion " . |
| 9 | Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning . |
| 10 | But it was difficult to see why they would , given that everyone seemed to agree with the current policy . |
| 11 | Because , on this occasion , the other four Great Powers seemed to agree with the Russian Foreign Minister , the crisis promised to be short-lived . |
| 12 | It 's pretty funny that you and Alicia were the only ones in the classroom before afternoon school persisted Gwendoline angry that no one seemed to agree with her suggestion . |
| 13 | At times the self image presented by these women in their paintings seemed to dovetail with Surrealist expectations . |
| 14 | The atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffins . |
| 15 | It seemed filled with people — officers , clerks , a constable . |
| 16 | He had his father 's black hair , a strong sun-tan , and seemed filled with a manic energy ; ready and eager to enjoy both Wavebreaker and our company . |
| 17 | It seemed filled with red jelly . |
| 18 | Her attention-seeking bore the outward marks of sincerity , in spite of the gush — and Miranda 's exclamations , declarations , confessions and other self-revealing speeches seemed filled with inadvertencies , guileless admissions and a heroic individuality of voice and response . |
| 19 | The night seemed filled with erotic dreams . |
| 20 | There was an intake of angry breath from Lucenzo , and the boatman seemed filled with remorse , but he was bundled off the boat before Meredith could make sense of the man 's mistake . |
| 21 | Like the girl with the clipboard , they seemed consumed with gratitude and admiration for his skill in getting there . |
| 22 | Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators . |
| 23 | The gloves seemed to go with the stick , as any outfitter will readily confirm . |
| 24 | There were two entire sections of medical works , mostly in French , including many — they hardly seemed to go with spiritualism — on psychiatry , and another two of scientific books of all kinds ; several shelves of philosophical works , and also a fair number of botanical and ornithological books , mostly in English and German ; but the great majority of the rest were autobiographies and biographies . |
| 25 | Sophia thought this looked rather odd and had offered to lend her a string of cultured pearls , but the beads seemed to go with the piled up hair style and the long pointed-toed shoes that Penelope was wearing . |
| 26 | It seemed to work with the Div 4 winner on 129 plus 5 . |
| 27 | His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own . |
| 28 | Craig Maskell scored his second goal , and when the 21-year-old striker helped Mike Cecere to bring the teams level even the deserted Cowshed , with its condemned roof , seemed to shake with emotion . |
| 29 | The room seemed to shake with them . |
| 30 | ‘ You think I do n't ? ’ he asked , and his voice seemed to shake with the effort to control it . |