Example sentences of "[adv] it seemed as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them . ’ |
| 2 | The intensity of her response to him a minute ago filled her with self-loathing , but she was afraid too , because suddenly it seemed as if hatred was no longer enough to counter the threat he presented , and yet it was the only answer she possessed . |
| 3 | A week later it seemed as if Evelyn 's plan had had a miraculously swift outcome . |
| 4 | Fear often played tricks with my perception and now it seemed as if I was losing my grip of reality . |
| 5 | Now it seemed as if they were postponed indefinitely . |
| 6 | Now it seemed as if this ‘ law of parallelism ’ could be extended to the whole history of life on earth . |
| 7 | Now it seemed as if his arms tapered all the way down to his fingertips where they lay lightly on the wheel of the Audi . |
| 8 | Not so long ago it seemed as if the world was to divide into three main trading blocks : the EC based around the West German economy ; a Northern American block based around the US-Canadian free trade area , and a Pacific unit incorporating the Asian tigers with Japan and the yen at the centre . |
| 9 | Kenneth Williams was a marvellous prop for Kenneth Horne and like all good props , sometimes it seemed as if the whole thing would collapse without him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sometimes it seemed as if Charley did not distinguish between a live body and a dead one . |
| 12 | Again it seemed as if she was about to say something but changed her mind . |