Example sentences of "[noun pl] seem [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Back in the sixties , when the kids seemed to think of nothing but politics and sex , I used to pray God almighty that my Daniele would never turn out like that .
2 His eyes seemed to burn through them in disapproval .
3 The black glittering eyes seemed to tear at her like scissors .
4 Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time .
5 Madame 's eyes seemed to look past her into a different time .
6 Thus , like Julian , the Prophet Muhammad said that his revelations seemed to come to him in two ways : some were clear and others were obscure and very difficult to understand .
7 His narrow shoulders had a permanent forward-drooping hunch , with the result that clothes seemed to hang off him in shapeless folds .
8 Her scalp gleamed as if freshly oiled , and pornographic tattoos seemed to writhe across it with a life of their own .
9 Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard .
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