Example sentences of "[adv] seemed to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 2 | with black fillings , and long ratty hair that always seemed to be just coming out of a perm . |
| 3 | It was true if you had an American boyfriend you stood to gain quite a bit in material goods , as their PX always seemed to be well stocked with food and silk stockings , cigarettes and make-up — all things in short supply in England — and for this reason if nothing else the Yanks were never short of female company . |
| 4 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | I had to speak to accountants , asking for information and so on , and they always seemed to be out at lunch , whether it was 10 in the morning or five in the afternoon . |
| 7 | His material fortunes always seemed to be less stable than those of most rich men . |
| 8 | The last of the winter snow was melting off the steep slopes , but the flatter areas and the passes still seemed to be well covered . |
| 9 | Even after that , they still seemed to be completely bewildered , and kept repeating , ‘ But you do n't really want to be alone , do you ? ’ |
| 10 | The lights , which once seemed to be there to compensate for any lackings in the performers ' abilities , are now secondary to the punch of the music . |
| 11 | He also seemed to be rather boastful and above himself . |
| 12 | Romance also seemed to be diametrically opposed to peace and relaxation , which was why she had come here . |
| 13 | He 'd taken her out to dinner that very night , and now seemed to be practically haunting the place , and obviously very much in love with her friend . |
| 14 | Terry and Tom argued as well , and there often seemed to be far more serious undercurrents than a simple difference of opinion . |
| 15 | But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring . |
| 16 | I have returned from the toughest trial that I have ever seen I he had already been wounded , for the third time , near Douaumont on February 25th ] — four days and four nights — ninety-six hours — the last two days soaked in icy mud — under terrible bombardment , without any shelter other than the narrowness of the trench , which even seemed to be too wide ; not a hole , not a dugout , nothing , nothing . |
| 17 | She was wearing long evening gloves , indeed seemed to be fully dressed for a ball . |
| 18 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 19 | No one else seemed to be about , although it was term . |
| 20 | The only way forward seemed to be down . |
| 21 | They never seemed to be near where Gloria and Dot were . |
| 22 | They were regarded as betrothed , but while Judith regularly took on the air of proprietorship , Andrew never seemed to be much interested . |
| 23 | The youth could n't have been an inch over five feet three , skinny with dark curly hair and flashing eyes that never seemed to be still , as if he were always on the lookout for trouble . |
| 24 | Her clothes never seemed to be quite right . |
| 25 | ‘ There were times when it certainly seemed to be more important than our marriage . ’ |