Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A far distant bell in her exhausted mind seemed to be ringing some kind of warning . |
| 2 | Werewolf seemed to be conducting some sort of slaughter out there . |
| 3 | Well they , they seemed to be putting some finance in , but er it went through a bit of a flat spot and then the sold out I , I 'm sorry I 'm stuttering and all this but I have n't done my research you know and it , it 's , it 's tough going . |
| 4 | He then brought up the £8000 to £8,000 by steering clear of the OTC , and the vicar was ecstatic that at last he seemed to be making some money . |
| 5 | He seemed to be making some impression on the person at the other end of the phone . |
| 6 | The driver seemed to be playing some kind of survival game with the girls of the Navimore School : he slowed down out of courtesy to the bus stop sign , but took it no further than that . |
| 7 | His eyes glinted through the black lashes and for a moment he seemed to be offering some sort of olive branch . |
| 8 | He seemed to be having some kind of fit . |
| 9 | It might dilute the real body of work which I felt to be making some kind of contribution . |
| 10 | By March 5 troops loyal to Saddam Hussein appeared to be achieving some success against the rebels . |
| 11 | At that time , as George Orwell reflected , the campaign appeared to be exerting some impact upon British politics for , ‘ In England the Popular Front is only an idea , but it has already produced the nauseous spectacle of bishops , Communists , cocoa-magnates , publishers , duchesses and Labour MPs marching arm-in-arm to the tune of ‘ Rule Brittania ’ . |
| 12 | They were quietly seething , June 1988 may not have been the right time for demonstrations , but parts of the student body and some sectors of the urban population appeared to be contemplating some form of action to let the government know of their intentions . |
| 13 | In another measure , the Government extended the Landlord and Tenant Act protection to the licensed trade but they would not bring it in immediately — it had to be implemented some time in the future . |