Example sentences of "seemed so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 2 | People who had at first seemed so friendly and decent and open and neighbourly , but who , after two or three encounters , had turned into ravingly obsessive lunatics . |
| 3 | Up to now the possibility had seemed so remote as not to need consideration — an order given by Hardy as a matter of course , accepted by Denis as a standard instruction in an operation of this nature . |
| 4 | By March Wolfgang had resumed his duties at Salzburg with a heavy heart : never had his birthplace seemed so provincial , limited and dull . |
| 5 | She and Brian had been meaning to explore the area at weekends , but there had always seemed so much else to do . |
| 6 | The ring that had seemed so small for just two men was suddenly full of ecstatic members of the Lewis camp . |
| 7 | I was nonplussed , I stared at my teacher , never before had his swollen face seemed so replete with indifference , stone ataraxy . |
| 8 | She can not do this , pleading that surely loving him now is enough , but this does not fit into Gatsby 's dream and he can not accept this , ‘ his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it ’ , but it was he , himself , who finally stood in the way of fulfilment . |
| 9 | She 's always seemed so efficient , so controlled . ’ |
| 10 | Was it possible that he was connected with ‘ my lord — Mr Smith ’ , who had seemed so anxious to get rid of them ? |
| 11 | Odd , though , that they had once seemed so odd , so isolated , for the school at which Dotty Doddridge vainly endeavoured to teach French had been non-conformist , faintly progressive , certainly egalitarian in its religious and social complexion : it had offered a liberal , secularized , healthy coeducation , and had on its foundation in the 1860s set out to attract the children of vegetarians , Quakers , freethinkers , pacifists , Unitarians , reformers . |
| 12 | By this time , Lewis had shown Morse the yellow A4 sheet ; and Morse had seemed so delighted with it that he 'd turned on the car 's internal light in transit . |
| 13 | This had been the story that he 'd used when it had n't seemed so serious , and it was the story that he was sticking with now . |
| 14 | I looked over his shoulder and saw Fra Angelico 's famous ‘ Annunciation ’ ; and at once knew why the colonnade outside had seemed so familiar . |
| 15 | You 've always seemed so self-possessed . ’ |
| 16 | It was quite a shock to everyone when it was known that Mr Wilson had died ; he who had always seemed so solid and enduring . |
| 17 | Vexatious , persistent winds have rarely seemed so unnecessary . |
| 18 | He looked bewildered , but the whole afternoon must have seemed so unbelievable to him that hopping into a boat would seem to be all of a piece . |
| 19 | The invasion threats , which had seemed so immediate in 1948–49 , had subsided and there had been fewer incidents on the parallel . |
| 20 | It had seemed so straightforward then . |
| 21 | He had always seemed so stuffy and plain in his dress . |
| 22 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 23 | Mine were of that last tropical downpour in Samaná when the potential violence had seemed so distant to me . |
| 24 | Her anxieties , her tension , her thoughts about racing tomorrow had never seemed so distant . |
| 25 | ever since Grasmere when the trap the fisherman had sprung — and which had seemed so foolproof — had simply not worked , he had been a little abashed . |
| 26 | And when I left them , the thing that had seemed so horrible to me was transformed into happiness of body and soul for me . " |
| 27 | He glanced over her slowly from head to foot , taking in the sleeveless green cotton dress with its tight bodice and full skirt that had seemed so modest when she had put it on . |
| 28 | He had seemed so solitary , so self-reliant . |
| 29 | Nicolo had seemed so relaxed ; now , he sat beside her , his body stiff with tension . |
| 30 | In the early to mid-'80s , The Wasp Factory 's prole art debut would not have seemed so brave , but in releasing an album bound to infuriate and confuse most who cross its path at this time they really are pressing their luck . |