Poirot seemed to follow my thoughts. 
I felt that Poirot was following my thoughts.
Poirot seemed to have no grasp of my thoughts.
She was around the office quite a lot.
A goup of people perform music for a crowd.
A person is outside in a tree
The old man has a beer.
A dog is walking on the side of a volcano.
If blacks had not had their terrible history of enslavement and discrimination, where would those two have ranked?