Example sentences of "he always seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always seemed to have something planned : something to do , somewhere to go . |
| 2 | People who did n't like him said he was very sarcastic , but he always seemed to me to be a most sensitive and competent man . |
| 3 | Somehow he always seemed to give a thoroughly professional performance — quiet , controlled and extremely efficient . ’ |
| 4 | During the summer Dad would go to the allotment or at other times of the year start one or other of the jobs which he always seemed to have to do . |
| 5 | When he was well , he always seemed to be in demand and was proud to have worked on the Salisbury Cathedral restoration in the 1860 s , carried out under the direction of the great Victorian architect , Sir Gilbert Scott . |
| 6 | He always seemed to be picking on me . |
| 7 | Once Frank Connor had left the certainties of life in County Limerick , he always seemed like an actor who had wandered into the wrong play . |
| 8 | And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence . |
| 9 | He was always one for the girls and as soon as he was a bit older , instead of the dogs he always seemed to have besotted females hanging round him . |
| 10 | He always seemed to be on the move … |
| 11 | At home , whenever I visited , he always seemed the same docile , attractive child sitting silently watching TV in the impeccably tidy and attractive furnished living room of the very small , terraced house . |
| 12 | He always seemed to be ringing from a callbox , on grounds that the walls in his office had ears . |
| 13 | The Dodger , as usual , was winning easily ; somehow , he always seemed to know exactly what cards the other players had in their hands . |
| 14 | She had heard it all before but he always seemed to forget he had told her . |
| 15 | Rory knew Fergus was aged with Kenneth , but somehow he always seemed older . |
| 16 | Blanche found the dishevelled air he always seemed to carry about with him endearing . |
| 17 | She hoped he was n't , for he always seemed to talk about himself and kept Connie largely silent , which meant that no one else present had any amusement at all . |
| 18 | Danny did n't have any big problems , he always seemed happy . |
| 19 | He always seemed to need protecting from someone or something . |
| 20 | The effect was that he always seemed to be smiling . |
| 21 | For a big man , he always seemed to move so silently , like a cat hoping to catch a mouse . |
| 22 | He was clever in a bubbling , sideways way that Masklin distrusted ; he always seemed to be bottling up excitement about something , and when he spoke the words always rushed out , with Nisodemus putting ‘ ums ’ in the flow of words so that he could catch his breath without anyone having the chance to interrupt him . |
| 23 | She often forgot how handsome Georg was , especially lately when he always seemed to have a scowl on his face . |
| 24 | He always seemed to be hanging about , keeping a watchful eye on them . |
| 25 | He always seemed to know exactly where Sergeant Charles Trumper of the Royal Fusiliers could be located at any time of the day or night . |
| 26 | well he always seemed to me to be a bit of wise guy |
| 27 | Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ? |
| 28 | And he always seemed to slip into it I expect . |