Example sentences of "[adv] seem [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " CAO expressed disappointment that we did not seem to agree with him on this point , but added that he was faced with a grave administrative problem with hundreds of thousands of German PoWs on his hands and could not bother at this time about who might or who might not be handed over to the Russians or Partisans to be shot . " |
| 2 | CAO expressed disappointment that we did not seem to agree with him on this point but added that he was faced with a grave administrative problem with hundreds of thousands of German PoWs on his hands and could not bother at this time about who might or might not be turned over to the Russians and Partisans to be shot . |
| 3 | I do not know why but that did not seem to register with me at the time , and it did not until there was a third assault on the door . |
| 4 | Staring at him , at the strength , the energy that always seemed to radiate from him despite his easy , relaxed air , she did n't believe a word of it . |
| 5 | She could see his disdain , and it was n't so much for her — she hardly seemed to count for anything at all in his eyes . |
| 6 | I just can nae seem to get off it at all . |
| 7 | The relief must have shown in her face , as she caught his brief little smile of amusement drifting in her direction , and when she thought back on their encounters lately she realised that he often seemed to glance at her in that same lightly amused way , as if he found her mildly diverting — the way he might feel , perhaps , about a pretty child . |
| 8 | The food she had eaten immediately seemed to stick inside her like a great lump of lead . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's no good — I just ca n't seem to think of myself as a European yob ’ |
| 10 | But after the first few meetings … well , the people there are nice enough … it 's just that we never seem to hear from them between our quarterly meetings " . |