Example sentences of "[adv] seemed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prospect of any trouble at all that did n't involve demoralisation at Willesden suddenly seemed to Charles a welcome change . |
| 2 | His words jarred Harriet and she swallowed at the ball of nerves that suddenly seemed to be constricting her throat . |
| 3 | The room suddenly seemed to him both overcrowded and empty . |
| 4 | There suddenly seemed to be nothing between them except the hatred flaring in Ursula 's eyes . |
| 5 | Rincewind turned to run , but the air suddenly seemed to be thicker than treacle . |
| 6 | It suddenly seemed to him to have been lull of long damp nights sleeping under the stars , desperate fights with trolls , city guards , countless bandits and evil priests and , on at least three occasions , actual demigods — and for what ? |
| 7 | It was as big as the island itself , if not bigger , and the rocks below seemed to be wobbling under the strain of holding it up . |
| 8 | He looked around briefly at the women with the scraggy necks in the Laura Ashley dresses , and the men who all seemed to be wearing red ties , and probably Seiko watches — but for a different reason from Bob . |
| 9 | Despite this chilly inconvenience , however , the place was crowded with people who all seemed to be talking at once . |
| 10 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 11 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 12 | The further away from a time-piece you were , the more it not only seemed to but did drag . |
| 13 | The Divisional Court upheld the scheme adopted by the GLC but the ground on which they did so seemed to be no more than that ‘ since the LTE could exercise its function to balance its revenue account by a grant from the GLC , a policy that reduced fares by means of such a grant was not unlawful ’ . |
| 14 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 15 | Suddenly running the club successfully seemed to be the most important thing in her life . |
| 16 | Industrialists often made that sort of threat , but they rarely seemed to be carried out . |
| 17 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 18 | He also remarked that Belgion was something of a mystery man , about whom very little seemed to be known — even whence he acquired his undoubtedly vast store of knowledge . |
| 19 | As with Gabby , we had n't known them long — almost unbelievably less than two years , but they already seemed to be old friends . |
| 20 | Yet the yawning emptiness out here upon the vast deck already seemed to be swallowing any sense of connexion with the interior of the fortress-monastery … |
| 21 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 22 | He 'd read the script and already seemed to be familiar with Joyce 's published material . |
| 23 | It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation . |
| 24 | Hitler no longer seemed to be speaking to convince ; rather , he seemed to feel that he was expressing what the audience , by now transformed into a single mass , expected of him . |
| 25 | And the house no longer seemed to be on the defensive , she realised as she parked the car . |
| 26 | But in some odd way the decision no longer seemed to be in his hands . |
| 27 | We just seemed to time it wrong with the weather . |
| 28 | Hayling , who was much smoother in his appearance and approach , just seemed to Thomas to be very ignorant of business and how it worked . |
| 29 | Some of the cognoscenti had recognised why he was wearing the deaf-aid , but for the majority , it just seemed to be part of the character , justified by a couple of new lines . |
| 30 | Chemistry in turn , even ‘ organic chemistry ’ , was considerably more advanced than the life-sciences , which just seemed to be taking off into an era of exciting progress . |