The brown paper bag seemed to contain papers of some sort.

The world seemed to contain little more than the river and the prairie.

He smiled a private smile that did not seem to contain much humor.

It seemed to contain not one large object but several smaller ones- like pieces or parts.

They also seem to contain a lot of new data, and I can't help wondering about that data's reliability.

In one yard several of them were sleeping; another seemed to contain only an old woman.

It seemed to contain the words 'and he gave me permission to' without actually doing so.

And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.

But their presence seems to contain a mixture of various factors.

The theory seems to contain everything that physicists ever wanted to know about the forces of nature but were afraid to ask.