Example sentences of "[that] seem [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly that seemed riotously funny , and she laughed . |
| 2 | But there there was n't , mm , well there was nothing that seemed immediately er relevant I must say , but |
| 3 | Two that seemed particularly sad cases were Sqn Ldr " Danny " Everett DSO . |
| 4 | Her eyes held Morse 's for a few seconds — eyes that seemed rather timid , yet potentially mischievous , too — until her mouth managed a nervous little ‘ Hullo ’ . |
| 5 | Magistrates became so familiar with this procedure that , in some courts , the ‘ usual conditions ’ came to be attached to the granting of bail to striking miners in a way that seemed both autocratic and inevitable . |
| 6 | It was a familiar stance to those who knew him , as was the smile he now gave his son ; a dark , ironic smile that seemed both amused and calculating . |
| 7 | It looked fragile , held together by struts that seemed no longer than bits of wire . |
| 8 | The parts of the fashion feast that seemed most relevant were those that were concerned with the here and now : such as Susanne Bartsch 's Love Ball , which raised $750,000 for French Aids charities . |
| 9 | There was a humorous light in her keen black eyes that seemed somehow warm and welcoming . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the Venetian government always felt its position to be somewhat ambiguous and was correspondingly sensitive to anything that seemed even remotely to challenge it . |
| 11 | Gazing into grey eyes that seemed incredibly gentle and soft , she forgot all about his reasons for being there , forgot everything except this infuriating giant who was slowly but surely destroying her peace of mind , ‘ Why ? ’ she whispered . |
| 12 | Perhaps her husband was faithful to her , as he swore ; in her present mood , that seemed just as deplorable as his imagined infidelities . |
| 13 | Until his knees failed him and the cartilages were removed , he was also one of the finest of all cover fielders , with electrifying speed and a pin-point throw that seemed barely credible . |
| 14 | As for the subtlety , that seemed quite alien to the woman who coochy-cooed over children she wanted to mutilate . |
| 15 | Too confused to respond , Sarella let him mould her beneath his touch until he ran his hands violently over her hips , locking her tight in a way that seemed shockingly intimate after the coldness that had preceded it , and then she felt a searing rapport as her body responded hungrily to his touch . |
| 16 | Turning away from a regard that seemed faintly menacing , she tried to look as though she knew what she was doing as she rearranged some sweaters . |
| 17 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
| 18 | The woman wore a dress that seemed very short when I recalled the picture through the next few years : broad shoulders , a straight skirt that hung the way it did — I know now — because it had some rayon in it . |
| 19 | He fell asleep , and had a dream that seemed very real . |
| 20 | There was something that seemed very easy for lots of these people , and I was looking at it as somebody who did n't feel quite so easy about what they were doing . |
| 21 | Scott was so successful in styling the building in fine brickwork with ‘ jazz-modern ’ fluting ( as John Betjeman called it ) that , when the Battersea ‘ A ’ station was opened in 1934 it was widely acclaimed as a supremely successful modern treatment of a building type that seemed quintessentially twentieth century . |
| 22 | But there clung about her something that seemed much older , ten years older , a sort of coolness — not coldness or indifference , but a limpid aloofness ; coolness in the way that one thinks of coolness on a hot summer 's day . |
| 23 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
| 24 | He was also unhappy about Pound 's own obstinacy and arrogance in the matter of his eventual release ; he was raising objections to schemes that seemed perfectly sound and , as Eliot told his daughter , " I fear your father does not want to accept freedom on any terms that are possible " . |
| 25 | The disappearance of manned bombers as well as fighters would reduce the RAF to a missile and air-transport force — not an inviting prospect , but one that seemed too far ahead to worry about unduly in 1957 . |
| 26 | She was a small , round woman with eyes that seemed too small for her face which was flushed red ; it was as much she could do to struggle up , rolling from side to side and , I noticed , smelling of drink . |
| 27 | All he could see was a proud and fierce eagle , caged in an area that seemed too small for her , and her eyes staring at him blankly . |
| 28 | Then there was another , and others behind it , and I saw the long bare tail like a whip , the narrow head , the yellow teeth that seemed too big for the jaws , the glittering red eyes . |
| 29 | Luke was sitting nonchalantly , on a chair that seemed too small for him , legs out in front , one hand cupping his chin , watching her . |
| 30 | Millie was two hours under Sister Mary , and during this time she learned that the nun did not always bother to use her hand , she also used a ruler that seemed as flexible as rubber , for when it hit knuckles it bounced back from them . |