Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 2 | To her it was quite perfect , a light red costume made of silk , which seemed to cling to her like a second skin . |
| 3 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 4 | The floor was so uneven that it was like running through the Crazy Cottage in a funfair ; the building itself seemed to pitch around him like a listing boat . |
| 5 | Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children . |
| 6 | The food she had eaten immediately seemed to stick inside her like a great lump of lead . |
| 7 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 8 | The way she felt about him seemed to sweep round her like the clouds up above . |
| 9 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 10 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
| 11 | Madame 's eyes seemed to look past her into a different time . |
| 12 | This woman also had a passion to visit Russia , and she seemed to look on herself as a sort of tramp reformer . |
| 13 | Her scalp gleamed as if freshly oiled , and pornographic tattoos seemed to writhe across it with a life of their own . |
| 14 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 15 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 16 | Lucy contemplated her future , which seemed to stretch before her in a pattern of bleakness , especially where her social life was concerned . |
| 17 | The smell of burnt powder seemed to hang around him in a cloud . |
| 18 | Fabia declared , stoutly , it somehow not sitting very well at all that he seemed to think of her as a child . |
| 19 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 20 | Even when the latter does raise religious matters , he seems to deal with them from a different perspective than that of the ascetic theology of Faustus or the spiritual philosophy of another great writer and friend , Claudianus Mamertus . |
| 21 | Given that ( i ) no other sources support this view ; ( ii ) the view is none the less generally reasonable ; ( iii ) evidence from Pomponius ( and perhaps also Julian ) seems to speak against it for the second century ; and ( iv ) a Justinianic interpolation seems unlikely , it seems most probable that the text represents the genuine view of Papinian . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's no good — I just ca n't seem to think of myself as a European yob ’ |
| 23 | At first sight the outcome may seem to depend on which of the combatants is the stronger or more skilled . |
| 24 | 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 . |