Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [adv] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we try to look into ourselves we always seem to come upon some particular thought or feeling , and not upon the ‘ I ’ which has the thought or feeling . |
| 2 | Told ya I always seem to use up all the cereals in one go . |
| 3 | The things to avoid are principally a sort of subterranean trembling that begins in the body and communicates itself to your vocal chords and even , on occasion , to the chair in which you are sitting , and those long swallows , which you never seem to do at any other time but now occur unstoppably at the wrong point of emphasis in the sentence . |
| 4 | No , the problem which really preoccupied him , which he kept returning to from one direction after another , and one in which he never seemed to make headway , was how to use the information he had to bring the conflict between Copt and Moslem to an end . |
| 5 | During the summer Dad would go to the allotment or at other times of the year start one or other of the jobs which he always seemed to have to do . |
| 6 | The first , which he currently seems to believe himself , is that his failures so far are attributable to bad ‘ communications ’ . |
| 7 | If he 'd already known Ryan , which it now seemed he did , had he then looked up her parents deliberately ? |
| 8 | How effective the ‘ make do and mend ’ changes which it now seems will be all that the USTA will be able to carry out , prove to be , must be a matter of serious doubt . |
| 9 | Sa , she her eyes are getting blacker every time and she she just seems to be in her books all the time , and everything now . |
| 10 | But every time we came up with something we never seemed to get it beyond the initial idea , and then suddenly someone else would come out with it ! |
| 11 | Luce debated stopping and having a showdown but , chickening out , she told herself it hardly seemed worth the hassle . |
| 12 | Lucien grudgingly had to admit that they were first-class vibrancers , but to him they still seemed an insult to the art . |
| 13 | But to me it just seems wrong to have the government involved in any kind of censorship or questions of taste . |
| 14 | I it it still seems to me every time I read the policy that it 's a lot more flexible than most people are giving it credit for frankly . |
| 15 | devoted to the question of of of road transport and its limitations and erm er although again I mean there was no particular mention to any party other than the Government , erm it it certainly seemed to be taking a very critical view of of road transport and it does seem to be spreading now . |
| 16 | Every time you say that , what you really seem to mean is that there 's a hell of a lot wrong but you 're not prepared to discuss it . ’ |
| 17 | It 's what you always seem to be doing . ’ |
| 18 | He hemmed and hawed and rambled through a number of subjects before making a sideways approach to what he really seemed to need , which was any useful or memorable detail that would be worth noting about the previous night 's client . |