Example sentences of "who seemed to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Edinburgh student appeared too consistent and resilient for Miss Topper who seemed to be struggling with the slippery court , and she triumphed 3–6 6–1 6–3 an impressive achievement for a No. 7 seed . |
| 2 | I took it to a couple of shops who just were n't interested and then to Macaris who seemed to be interested in buying it but who were being a bit funny about it to me . |
| 3 | Then a man who seemed to be in charge said , ‘ We 're going to let you go . |
| 4 | Then he caught sight of the sergeant who seemed to be too amused by the situation altogether . |
| 5 | Thanks especially to who seemed to be everywhere with me loading , unloading , sorting , labelling , selling , loading , unloading … ! |
| 6 | She glanced from her regular customers to the two new ones who seemed to be interested in the proceedings , and she said , ‘ Well , now , she wo n't get much chocolate toffee for a ha'penny . |
| 7 | One of these referred to the old man who seemed to be the self-appointed guide to the Bowder Stone , that most popular tourist attraction , which hangs precariously , as it hung then , in Borrowdale . |
| 8 | Doctors and nurses tend to keep each other at arm 's length ; no wonder the RCN had trouble coming to terms with the status of nurses who seemed to be engaged in the same work as doctors . |
| 9 | ‘ It is all right , ’ said one who seemed to be the leader of them . |
| 10 | Nell sat opposite Sheridan Lorrimore who seemed to be telling her that he had wrapped his Lamborgini round a tree recently and had ordered a new one . |
| 11 | Tamar had little chance to talk to Stephen , who seemed to be occupied on estate business from morn till night . |
| 12 | Wandering through Covent Garden a while ago I spotted a smartly dressed woman who seemed to be talking intently to her right shoulder . |
| 13 | Why has there been no mention in your mag of the Harmony company , who seemed to be one of the earliest to rely on mass-production techniques to rival the ‘ hand-built ’ approach of Martin , Gibson and Washburn in terms of sales figures and affordability ? |
| 14 | Seen taking snaps of the mud ( yes , we said mud ) divers on the Sunday was cult film-maker JIM JARMUSCH who seemed to be the only one interested in watching what was otherwise a truly sad spectacle . |
| 15 | The big grey-haired American who seemed to be in charge of his party from the black car grabbed the case from the bobby 's hands , flicked the locks and looked inside . |
| 16 | Catherine or St Catherine 's Hill itself constituted a Pandora 's box of small-town trades and occupations at the time : everything from a gingerbread maker to a hairdresser , a staymaker , a breechesmaker , Charles Tucker the coalminer , John Golledge the blind schoolmaster , Mrs Allen at the Castle public house , and even John Ward , who seemed to be able to support himself by practising the noble art of a ‘ horse jockey ’ . |
| 17 | The second picture , clearly designed to demonstrate the rewards of illiteracy , showed a scabby-looking native dressed in a threadbare loincloth who crouched in the mud outside a grass hut and who seemed to be sharing his lunch bowl with a baboon . |
| 18 | People stood about meeting planes , men who seemed to be the drivers of hired cars carrying placards with the names of people or companies printed on them , families waiting for a returning father , a strange old woman in a red cloak , chewing gum . |
| 19 | Debbie Raymond , who seemed to be winning a battle against breast cancer following a double mastectomy , was found dead at her home . |
| 20 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 21 | The man said he later went outside and saw a soldier lying on the road with others around him who seemed to be helping him or attending to him . |
| 22 | The regular aircrew treated us quite well as a rule but there were one or two time serving Air Gunners who seemed to be jealous of our youth and high spirits , and the majority of the skippers were real gents who appreciated that without the National Service contingent the Washingtons could not be crewed correctly . |
| 23 | The only child of parents whose steady outrageousness was only charming to outsiders — oh , the luck , Anna used to think as a child , oh , the sublime luck of being an outsider ! — Anna , at university , sought out friends who seemed to be defiantly normal . |
| 24 | Moin departed reluctantly after a snap catch by Smith at silly mid-off , and Mushtaq , who seemed to be standing in a hole , was caught by Hick , a competent slip catch . |
| 25 | There were very few people around who seemed to be telling the truth about their past lives , and what they told you was only meant to further their self image . |
| 26 | In my dream I was alone on an empty road , trying to remember the director 's name , when a large open-topped car drove up , full of laughing passengers who seemed to be sharing their jokes in a foreign language . |
| 27 | He had coolly — some even said coldly — " stood firm during the terrible onslaught of the myxomatosis , ruthlessly driving out every rabbit who seemed to be sickening . |
| 28 | the exercise encouraged greater communication with governors ( a number of whom read the whole study ) , and between the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and more junior staff ( who seemed to be more willing to ask for help ) ; |
| 29 | The other was a middle-aged woman , also Italian , who seemed to be her friend . |
| 30 | By early November however , as the Dublin lock-out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . |