Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] seemed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was extraordinary , but suddenly we seemed to be on quite different terms . |
| 2 | Suddenly it seemed to Honor that a bond was being forged between them . |
| 3 | Suddenly it seemed to her as if the whole world wanted to know about every detail of her life . |
| 4 | Suddenly he seemed to be standing very close to the bed . |
| 5 | How we used to look forward to it and how long it seemed to be in coming . |
| 6 | When the , the laundry was knocked down it seemed to be the end of an era that er , it did n't seem to be like park much longer . |
| 7 | Or so he seemed to Sairellen Thackray who preferred her leaders to have the mature dignity of a Richard Oastler , whom she had followed on foot those ninety miles to York and back when they had been campaigning for the ten hour working day . |
| 8 | The Land Campaign , or so it seemed to the Conservatives , threatened to wipe out those gains at a time when the party showed no signs of an electoral recovery elsewhere . |
| 9 | His heart began to make a terrible noise , or so it seemed to him . |
| 10 | ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains . |
| 11 | Once the police have arrested you , or so it seemed to us , they will throw the book at you in order to make something stick . |
| 12 | So it seemed to be crying out to be orchestrated , and I could hear just what it would be like in my head . |
| 13 | We were silly girls , forced by our situation to be idle , thrust back — or so it seemed to me — into childhood games of playing house . |
| 14 | She had just met a small girl who possessed , or so it seemed to her , quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance . |
| 15 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 16 | The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man . |
| 17 | Or so it seemed to Jaq . |
| 18 | So lofty were these papal prerogatives , that no further Council would ever be needed , or so it seemed to many . |
| 19 | It followed , or so it seemed to us , that while steps should be taken to clear the streets of soliciting prostitutes , the behaviour of consenting male adults in private was their affair and not the laws ' . |
| 20 | So it seemed to Fleury in his excitement , anyway . |
| 21 | So it seemed to be with Fiver now . |
| 22 | Out of a clear sky , or so it seemed to them . |
| 23 | First it was something good , or so it seemed to me . |
| 24 | Or so it seemed to Scott . |
| 25 | Or so it seemed to him . |
| 26 | Blanche shrugged sympathetically , or so it seemed to the sergeant , as if to say , ‘ I understand . |
| 27 | For many years the British had tried to run him , or so it seemed to many . |
| 28 | It was enough , or so it seemed to Maggie . |
| 29 | The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made . |
| 30 | Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories . |