Example sentences of "[pers pn] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | At none of them did I seem to do well . |
| 2 | Why ca n't I seem to remember what I saw before when I looked at these things … |
| 3 | ‘ Do I seem to be teasing ? |
| 4 | Do I seem unhappy ? |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , yes , Wilson , but how did she seem ? ’ |
| 6 | Did she seem her usual self ? ’ |
| 7 | For a while , did she seem almost within his reach ? |
| 8 | Only at the last minute , at the station , did she seem sad again . |
| 9 | Does she seem any more real to you here , more real than at Berwick ? ’ |
| 10 | She found no difficulty in detaching herself from Leif 's advances , so why did she seem pathologically incapable of breaking contact now ? |
| 11 | I will stand ready to reinforce your attack , should you seem likely to fail . ’ |
| 12 | Looking at him , do you seem to see a 25-year-old rather than a player of 35 ? |
| 13 | Catching hold of her and she could n't get back do you seem because he had slipped this hand down this stick , got hold of her and he you see , and then I let go of the dog and take the the front feet and we used to drag her out like that you see , from the burrow and put her in a bag . |
| 14 | And now then , this half that the college had , do you seem he had taken most of the timber from there , do you see . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose I was trying to make you seem more human . |
| 16 | Why do you seem to feel it 's absolutely imperative to dog my every footstep ? ’ |
| 17 | In the chemistry I did you seem to me to be terribly empirical , you had an inorganic substance and you had to learn absolute by heart what it did if you put it in water and you heated it and you did this that and the other . |
| 18 | Only locally do we seem to have an orogeny at this time , which is confused ( as so much else in stratigraphy ) by nomenclatural anomalies . |
| 19 | Now Alan , first of all er have we learned anything do you think over the years or do we seem to be getting worse ? |
| 20 | For those whose chief concern is for Yeats , the book will of course make him seem shadowy and self-deluding , but it will also testify to his conscientiousness and loyalty . |
| 21 | But Michael Peckham does all three — which makes him seem , on the face of it , an unlikely character to move to Whitehall as the government 's new Director of Research and Development at the Department of Health . |
| 22 | For weeks it threatened to be a cesspit of scandal , and not to be outdone the controversial English striker Stan Bowles , whose behaviour over the years made him seem like a surrogate Scot , admitted that he frequently took drugs . |
| 23 | Concerned , however , that these words might make him seem too frivolous , in the simple delight he obviously took in playing with his cat , he checks himself with the criticism that ‘ verily it may well be called an idle man 's pastime ’ . |
| 24 | Breeze laughed , for this petulant little outburst made him seem more human . |
| 25 | His very intelligent scrutiny of a role can make him seem too detached , too much the performer of a plan . ’ |
| 26 | Often he acted in ways that made him seem like a child demanding to be looked after . |
| 27 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 28 | It made him seem weak to her robust northern eyes . |
| 29 | Despite her embarrassment , it made him seem even more attractive . |
| 30 | Suddenly Peter flushed , which made him seem much younger than he was . |