Possible Clues:

• Seemed - performed - emerged
• Priest with 23 down or so it seemed
• Seemed - came into view
• Seemed to have come into view
• Turned up and called for umpire's decision, having changed sides
• As it turned out, primate ate fruit then died
• A priest seemed to be all ears
• Faced the judge
• A priest seemed to have been able to get sound, perhaps
• Conference, say, with editor after a page was published