Example sentences of "he seemed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warmth from him seemed to envelop her , like the comforting heat of the sun . |
| 2 | All animosity towards her husband dissolved and a spark of affection for him seemed to light up inside her , as it had in the old days . |
| 3 | The clothes he wore , the cut of his hair , even the subtly elegant watch on his wrist , everything about him seemed to indicate a man who had been brought up to take wealth for granted . |
| 4 | Something within him seemed to collapse but he did n't outwardly fall to pieces or rant or rave or even again try to pull out the arrow or finish me in any other way . |
| 5 | The way she felt about him seemed to sweep round her like the clouds up above . |
| 6 | Everything around him seemed to have grown bigger ( just like Alice in Wonderland , in n it ? ) . |
| 7 | Then suddenly he seemed to explode with anger . |
| 8 | He seemed to explode out of the chair , pacing to and fro as if he could not be still . |
| 9 | Neither of us spoke after that , Ward smoking in silence , and then , when he had finished his cigarette , he seemed to drift off to sleep again . |
| 10 | But as we got older it got harder and harder to talk to him ; he seemed to withdraw . |
| 11 | Then he seemed to recover himself . |
| 12 | He seemed to recover considerably after Paheri left home . |
| 13 | He seemed to shift slightly , and his gaze became shuttered as he answered quickly , ‘ Absolutely not . |
| 14 | He seemed to live his life throughout the summer on two levels : with Gwili and in his own writing and deeper probes into Pater 's works he was moving towards the standpoint of his article ‘ The Frontiers of English Prose ’ ( in Literature , September 1899 ) , that a ‘ most noticeable fact is the apparent destruction of the boundaries between poetry and prose , and between verse and prose … . |
| 15 | Then he seemed to anticipate a possibility . |
| 16 | ‘ Edwin was always a joker but the point was that he seemed to undervalue his own work and to think less of my judgement because I did not . |
| 17 | He seemed to embody in his person the entire history of the sport : he symbolized the Hawaiian spirit . |
| 18 | Quiet men with graceful manners were the ideal of her generation , and he seemed to embody it . |
| 19 | He seemed to shiver . |
| 20 | He seemed to shiver . |
| 21 | Bert he seemed to dismiss . |
| 22 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 23 | He seemed to hang suspended above the worshippers , his two tiny arms held out in front of him , and he was as still and quiet and calm as he had been when sitting at the Wilsons ' table or resting , alone , at the back of Class 1 . |
| 24 | I noted then , what I had noted earlier , that , at such a juncture , he seemed to sink his own personal problems and interests in concentrating on the troubles of the other person . |
| 25 | He seemed to view the nineteen nineties as some kind of Golden Age , and Cassie was reluctant to shake his faith in the future . |
| 26 | Then he seemed to squint and see the others standing there . |
| 27 | He seemed racked with emotion . |
| 28 | He seemed startled by his wife speaking his name . |
| 29 | He was conversing merrily in English at a reception during the European Cup meeting , but several weeks later in Rome when confronted by the television team he seemed to lose his linguistic powers . |
| 30 | He seemed to lose a little of his clumsiness when he was beside her . |