Example sentences of "which he seemed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturday was the one day on which he seemed to arrive early at the Herald office , but she doubted whether he would have got there yet . |
| 2 | He spent one night in New York and then , nursing a cold which he had contracted on the boat , he went straight to Boston — with his relatives , in particular his two sisters and his late brother 's family , and with old friends like Emily Hale and Djuna Barnes , he could still enjoy an affectionate intimacy which he seemed to lack in England . |
| 3 | The occasion was one which he seemed to wish to enjoy , and to make his enjoyment evident . |
| 4 | ‘ Cut it out , Maria , ’ he ordered her curtly after a few seconds in which he seemed to hold his breath . |
| 5 | His depth of vision , grasp of essentials , logical thinking , and the intuition by which he seemed to sense what was in the minds of those about him always ensured the best results . |
| 6 | Thus a Dean of Durham , and an ex-Bishop of Durham , and a complicated patronage secretary who popped out of holes like a rabbit , and a doctrine of apostolic authority , and an Archbishop of York , and a desire to follow the calling of God even if it looked unlikely , winkled a professor out of a career to which he seemed to have been born . |
| 7 | In fact , he identifies two theoretical questions to which he seemed to have assumed answers in his earlier paper : ( 1 ) Why do teachers change , or fail to change ? ( 2 ) How do teachers learn ? |
| 8 | He believed that the ray-vibrations invoked to explain light and radiant heat might happen in the lines of force ( which he seemed to have almost demonstrated experimentally ) rather than in the hypothetical ether . |
| 9 | He was all for England 's democracy and against any form of union with Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man , for which he seemed to have a particular dislike as " a nucleus of Celtic imagery " . |
| 10 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 11 | Personal delight and considerable sensitivity is evident in his work ; whether the delicate pencil studies of his middle years or , later , in his watercolours in which he seemed to find a new kind of inner freedom . |
| 12 | What was more , the Substitute gave the impression that he could cope with any third party interference , at any level , with nothing more than the pursed lips and flicker of amusement with which he seemed to regard everything that went on around him . |
| 13 | That part of me which , when first we met , I should willingly have made over to Jean-Claude — and which he seemed to make no attempt to acquire — was , of course , no more available to him than the source of his being was to me . |
| 14 | Sally-Anne had no idea that Havvie Blaine was Terry Rourke all over again , and even her uncle Orrin was deceived by Havvie 's name , his charm , and the feeling which he seemed to possess for his niece . |
| 15 | He had planned for it ; it had been expected ; it was just another episode of the unreal bureaucratic adventures in which he seemed to picture himself . |
| 16 | And if one moved like the wind in branches , the other 's motion was a tower falling , a frightening , uncoordinated progression in which he seemed to crash forward uncontrollably at each stride , jerking himself stiffly upright and swaying for a moment on his heels before the next toppling step . |