Example sentences of "that [pers pn] seemed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 2 | Everyone watched me , pleased that I seemed impressed . |
| 3 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
| 4 | He regarded it as one of my most endearing qualities that I seemed to want nothing from him . |
| 5 | It was only it was only that erm you know erm when you said the sixty pen pence it was the one that was the only one that I seemed to get stuck on . |
| 6 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 7 | Caliban was surprised that I seemed so positively gay when he came in . |
| 8 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 9 | The therapist pointed out to Liz that she seemed to be trying to get away from both the shop and the flat , and Liz then talked about her life with her boyfriend and that she felt she needed to start afresh . |
| 10 | She was so slim that she seemed to have no breadth whatever . |
| 11 | It was impossible to know what was going on in her mind , but he was thankful that she seemed in no way agitated . |
| 12 | The old lady spoke to me occasionally , but I noticed that she seemed to lapse into quiet moods . |
| 13 | Louise was so animated by now that she seemed to have forgotten that morning 's funeral . |
| 14 | And now , her face straight , her lips seeming to quiver , she went into the song ; and so beautiful was her rendering of it , so touching the cadences , so tender with longing the words , that she seemed transformed before their eyes : she was no longer Lemon , good for a joke or a bit of ribbing , for her voice cut through the façade of brashness , of insensitivity and coarseness that seems to become necessary to men in war . |
| 15 | This 46-year-old newcomer to federal politics from British Columbia was so far ahead of her colleagues that she seemed bound to win . |
| 16 | By August 1938 she had become a resident of the mental hospital , and Maurice reported to Eliot that she seemed " fairly cheerful , had slept well and eaten well , and had sat out in the garden and read a certain amount . " |
| 17 | He was somewhat consoled to find that she seemed to be genuinely interested . |
| 18 | A pulse of light slid over Fincara 's face , and the long green eyes were so alight , so blazingly concentrated , that she seemed a different woman . |
| 19 | That I did in fact think this way , and that her assumptions about my assumptions were in fact correct , is borne out by the fact that I interpreted her words quickly , and that she seemed perfectly satisfied with my interpretation . |
| 20 | Her voice faded as her body weakened and drooped , so that she seemed no more than the shadow of the eagle she must once have been , and a shadow that was losing itself in the darkness of a cage . |
| 21 | What was stranger still was that she seemed stressed and worried , and kept raising her wings into the wind and bending forward at it and then letting it lift her off her stand to the top of her cage where she stuck out her talons , hovered for a moment and then flopped inelegantly down again to the bare branch . |
| 22 | Having known her for less than two months , he was not yet confident of any strong hold on her affections , despite the fact that she seemed quite willing to accept his embraces and kisses . |
| 23 | Over the past few days , however , Harry noticed that she seemed reconciled to the fact that they were fast becoming an inseparable threesome . |
| 24 | When Alison had pushed him he 'd started to gather the momentum to ask the same questions that were obsessing Forester — apparently not the reaction she 'd expected , judging from the way that she seemed to have slammed the lid back on the mixture before it could boil over . |
| 25 | Like Anne , Maureen had often felt uneasy about Sarah 's relationship with Terry and thought that she seemed to regard him more as a brother than a lover . |
| 26 | Weirdly , the step turned into a kind of floating movement , so that she seemed to be somehow poised in the air for an instant . |
| 27 | Her gaze was dark , and hinted at some impossibly deep sense of pain ; and for a moment Lucy felt a certain regret , if not shame , at the way that she seemed to be ready to manipulate any situation for whatever advantage she could get . |
| 28 | Folly felt almost embarrassed at herself for the ease with which she was finding these excuses — and for the fact that she seemed to have slipped into mental first-name terms with this man who was , after all , a stranger . |
| 29 | Aunt Emily said , ‘ If you read it , dear child , it will take away your fear , ’ and Alexandra , stubbornly remembering Michael Swinton 's saying that she seemed to be working out her own salvation and feeling that the decision to read the journal must be part of that working out , shook her head and sent her needle stabbing in and out of the canvas . |
| 30 | Mrs Jelbart must be working out well as a housekeeper , and from a couple of things her father had said , Belinda gathered that she seemed to care about the Jones boys in a more personal way too . |