The orderly room seemed to be deserted.

The staircase itself seemed still to be echoing the heavy footfalls of many men.

He seemed to be fighting not one man but a dozen.

The author of the anonymous notes seemed to be all-knowing.

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

Everything was burnished with sweat and grease so that all of the objects seemed to have been carved from the same material and to be ageless.

Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

As things turned out, however, we have not profited greatly from the lesson: instead of persistently following a national program of our own we have often been satisfied to be against whatever Soviet policy seemed to be at the moment.

It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz musicians, their aims, their problems -- the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' -- and seemed a promising vehicle, for the two men shared a common interest in jazz.

This rather detached attitude toward life's encumbrances has seemed to be the dominant trait in Mercer's personality ever since.

They seemed to be at the White House half the time.

The next day he seemed to be in fairly good shape and still in excellent spirits.

Meantime, however, this same General Smallwood seemed to be serving chivalry as well as the American army.

And Lilly's whole family seemed to be an apology for Mr. Banks.

The brother and sister seemed to be a sort of mutual-aid society, a little fortress of kindness for each other in a hard world.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

The prevailing official attitude then seemed to be that fallout, if not exactly good for you, might not be much worse than a bad cold.

F. L. Lucas's article in SR's April 1 issue seemed to be a very fair and objective analysis of the New English Bible.

He seemed to be muttering, his voice surprisingly clear.

Flanked by marble urns and alabaster lamps, they seemed to be posing for a tribal portrait.

One of the drawing-room shutters was partly open and he made out the shapes of chairs and sofas, which seemed to be upholstered in brown or russet velvet.

Though, taken individually, the big rooms were, or seemed to be, square, the apartment as a whole formed a triangle.

It all seemed -- if one could have peeked in at him through one of his windows -- as though this broken-nosed man with the muscular arms and wrestler's neck was merely the caretaker trying his hand at the boss's work.

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.

He seemed to be the head of a group of actors, and for the life of me I was trying to understand who he was imitating.

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And it seemed like we were trying to be more obscure.

Brown recalled, " We were trying to write a song for her and we were brainstorming for some musical direction that seemed to suit her.

He seemed to be the ideal choice to negotiate and secured Somerset's release from prison in Feb 1455 ; he was still trying to get a compromise up to the eve of the First Battle of St. Albans on 22 May 1455.

Gates moved quickly this year to embrace the Net, although it sometimes seemed he was trying to wrap Microsoft's long arms around it.

Although it seemed like they were trying to steal something the lab in Paris, they were actually trying to steal something in Hank Pym's lab.

He seemed a poor pickup initially, as his hitting fell off and his fielding failed to improve, but in 1933 he stopped trying to be a power hitter and had his first of nine straight. 300 seasons.

By round thirteen, Cooney seemed to believe that he would lose the fight and was just trying to last the fifteen round distance.

The dog seemed to produce these white puppies regardless of the sire to which it was bred, and after drowning over twenty of these offspring, he came upon the theory that it was an ancient trait of the Scottish Terrier that was trying to re-appear.

Certainly Tracy creator Chester Gould seemed to be trying reflect the real world.

" Rowe reports that after considering this idea from a musical perspective, " trying to play guitar like Jim Hall seemed quite wrong.

However, Bilko and his men seemed to spend very little time actually performing their duties — Bilko in particular spent most of his time trying to wheedle money through various get-rich-quick scams and promotions, or to find ways to get others to do his work for him.

Prior to Cathy's marriage, she seemed to have an obsession with seeing Cathy married, right down to keeping a current copy of Bride magazine in her purse and going as far as trying to send Christmas cards to some of Cathy's ex-boyfriends, one of which was incarcerated for swindling investors, until Cathy stopped her.

He spent several months trying to find names that were both multi-cultural and Canadian, consulting Amerindian scholars without finding a name that seemed appropriate.

The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Phillips seemed shocked by Ali's apparent inability to understand we were only trying to help him.

While Andersson was trying to point out Mattias Weinhandl, Nill could not help noticing " this little Zetterberg guy who always seemed to have the puck.

Hurwitz did not know if Bateman was right for the part as he seemed associated with more conventional sitcoms, but Hurwitz said that in trying out for the part, Bateman " gave this dry, confident performance.

There seemed no choice but to fly their trysail until crewmembers Graham Phelp and Matthew Reeves took on the challenge of trying to repair it by using a cut out section as a splint.