1.   I ask Beate whether she hates the boys, and she seems astonished by the question.

2.   When she looked at me again, she had tears in her eyes and she seemed embarrassed by that.

3.   At this point the Danes evidently divided, some besieging London while others fought Edmund, who seems by now to have succeeded in raising forces in Wessex.

4.   Consumers also seemed confused by conflicting messages to use more energy, and to save it.

5.   He said that was his preferred view of the meaning in this context by which he seems to have meant that it was not an exhaustive definition.

6.   He seemed arrested by her laughter, she saw, as she watched his glance go from the merriment in her eyes to her laughing mouth.

7.   Alliance commanders refused to release casualty figures for the first day of battle, but it seemed clear by the nature of the fighting that the numbers were high.

8.   Alomar had seemed intimidated by the lynch-mob mentality in the ball park, but he began to snap out of it.

9.   Although the death of nine persons aboard the Japanese trawler seems wanton by any standard, I have hesitated to comment on the incident.

10.   And even some of the biggest telephone companies, whose business might seem threatened by the trend, are studying Internet telephony.