Example sentences of "that [pron] seemed [prep] [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The management ref refused to talk all the time and after a while it just got depressing , the fact that nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 2 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 3 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 4 | The therapist pointed out to Liz that she seemed to be trying to get away from both the shop and the flat , and Liz then talked about her life with her boyfriend and that she felt she needed to start afresh . |
| 5 | He was somewhat consoled to find that she seemed to be genuinely interested . |
| 6 | Weirdly , the step turned into a kind of floating movement , so that she seemed to be somehow poised in the air for an instant . |
| 7 | Her gaze was dark , and hinted at some impossibly deep sense of pain ; and for a moment Lucy felt a certain regret , if not shame , at the way that she seemed to be ready to manipulate any situation for whatever advantage she could get . |
| 8 | Aunt Emily said , ‘ If you read it , dear child , it will take away your fear , ’ and Alexandra , stubbornly remembering Michael Swinton 's saying that she seemed to be working out her own salvation and feeling that the decision to read the journal must be part of that working out , shook her head and sent her needle stabbing in and out of the canvas . |
| 9 | Rachel was relieved that everything seemed to be running so smoothly , not only with the setting up of the chat-line but with the new , easygoing atmosphere in the centre . |
| 10 | And sometimes , leaving his office , he would close his door in such a way that there seemed to be something or someone intriguing behind it , as Richard Miller noticed when he went to talk to him about banking for the contras ; it was deliberately stage-like , impressive . |
| 11 | Doone with slight reluctance admitted that there seemed to be marble stuck to the underside of one more floorboard on each side of the hole . |
| 12 | We became eerily conscious of the fact that there seemed to be an absence even of wild life : animal , bird or insect . |
| 13 | Thunder exploded , roll after roll after roll , so that there seemed to be no gap between but only an incessant bombardment . |
| 14 | They noticed that there seemed to be a lot of helium gas in the vicinity . |
| 15 | The important point was that there seemed to be no way of determinately reversing this higher-to-lower translation unless the target high-level language was already known . |
| 16 | Several speakers agreed that there seemed to be a great waste of resources in the whole training area . |
| 17 | When they came I was rather surprised that there seemed to be so many ; I said I had no idea that I 'd ordered as many as this . |
| 18 | You could n't describe its colour , except that there seemed to be depths within it , and depths within depths . |
| 19 | In the event , the meeting decreed an adjournment after only 90 minutes ; observers noted that there seemed to be a general desire to paper over the rifts caused by the Gulf war . |
| 20 | I remember thinking that there seemed to be one hell of a lot of buttons on the average Mother Christmas costume . |
| 21 | The first thing we discovered was that there seemed to be almost no information to go on . |
| 22 | In fact , she found in her review that there seemed to be a great of continuity , that again and again over these forty years researchers were reporting similar sorts of social and psychological impacts of unemployment . |
| 23 | Many were so hard that they seemed to be made of solid wood while others shattered like eggshells , but were virtually empty . |
| 24 | Three rows of tiny figures circled a Navaho basket , holding hands forever in the weave ; black squares for heads , so that they seemed to be facing inward to preserve the sanctity of the dance . |
| 25 | Grey stone walls rose about them , and winged roofs surfaced with rose-red tiles caught the sun so that they seemed to be on fire . |
| 26 | Then , exasperated by her own confusion , and the fact that they seemed to be going round in circles , Ellie demanded , ‘ Feargal , just tell me what it is you want to know — what , in fact , we 're supposed to be talking about ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Sixteen coffees , ’ she announced in the cool voice that they seemed to be using to each other , ‘ followed by — er — ’ Consulting her list , she continued , ‘ Six rounds of toast , five boiled eggs with soldiers … ’ |
| 28 | Ellie could n't actually hear what they were saying , only that they seemed to be arguing . |
| 29 | Just above the spot where Carey had stood to fish was a spread of broom , so close to the edge that it seemed to be rooted in granite . |
| 30 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |