Example sentences of "[pers pn] seemed unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when the girl grew into a young woman , she seemed unable to break free of her grandmother . |
| 2 | She seemed unable to appreciate the fact that Henry himself was one of a threatened species , even though that threat was treated with contempt by most ecologists and nearly all women . |
| 3 | She set up everywhere she went a series of dependency relationships , attaching herself either to the compassionate , the powerful , or the merely expedient , when her lack of judgement often led her to be rejected , robbed or ill-treated , but — again a psychotic trait — she seemed unable to learn by experience . |
| 4 | ‘ Know what ? ’ asked Dieter as she seemed unable to go on . |
| 5 | She seemed unable to understand him . |
| 6 | Stef was turning out to be very trying ; she seemed unable to accept that one love can finish just like that — poof ! — and a new one begin . |
| 7 | She knew she was acting in a stupid , childish manner , yet she seemed unable to control it . |
| 8 | She seemed unable to prevent herself from going over in her mind every single minute of the days they had spent together in America . |
| 9 | She stared at him and , as her eyes met his , once again , like the moment he 'd seen her in the pool , she seemed unable to look away . |
| 10 | It appears that the case had been in progress before the Heliopolitan Divine Council for eighty years and the gods were understandably becoming impatient and short-tempered , yet they seemed unable to decide upon a judgement . |
| 11 | Desert Orchid had often won from worse positions , but he seemed unable to quicken , and was half a length down on his two younger rivals as they landed over the last obstacle . |
| 12 | Like the child who long before had fled from the schoolmaster 's house at Ottery , Coleridge in his flight to the dragoons was escaping from intolerable external pressures , from the certain disapproval of his family , and from emotions within himself he seemed unable to control . |
| 13 | He looked at us both and became busy with his pipe which he seemed unable to get lighted . |
| 14 | But there have been disappointments over the years when in the heat of excitement he seemed unable to control an over-inflammable Slavonic temperament . |
| 15 | He seemed unable to speak . |
| 16 | On Sunday he seemed unable to settle . |
| 17 | He seemed unable to meet the coroner 's eyes , not daring even to look in his direction . |
| 18 | Coleridge had after all an interest in the maintenance of this humanity , for without it he seemed unable to regain those peaceful days represented in Frost at Midnight . |
| 19 | He seemed unable to look directly at her . |