Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A student of mine in a Spenser class which read A Present View suggested it seemed peculiar to be reading a piece by an author commonly hailed as one of the great writers of the English Renaissance putting forward views which makes him a type of war criminal within a twentieth-century perspective . |
| 2 | Kate found it hard to avoid hearing about him ; he seemed daily to be permeating her senses almost as if he were personally hounding her even though she accepted that had to be crazy thinking on her part . |
| 3 | The Buenos Aires flight was delayed and the plane horribly hot , but this did n't upset the passengers who seemed delighted to be going home . |
| 4 | Beador seemed relieved to be going . |
| 5 | He seemed likely to be doing it for quite some time to come as , rather than actually having an election , it is more a case of finding someone willing to take on the job . |
| 6 | The funny thing was that Lizzy seemed glad to be going . |
| 7 | It seemed curious to be describing such ice-cold seas while sitting in a palm-thatched Bahamian beach café that looked on to a shoreline where pelicans perched under the diamond-hard sun . |
| 8 | To my inexperienced eyes she seemed still to be floating far too high in the water , and I doubted that we would get away before sunset . |
| 9 | His smile was open and friendly , and suddenly it seemed preposterous to be standing here , on a Roman street corner , arguing with a man who had taken her from an existence that she 'd hated to one that was all she 'd ever dreamed of . |
| 10 | The first house Jane looked at was moated and she was shown over by an ex-policeman who seemed happy to be working for an estate agent . |
| 11 | Of the players , Gooch in particular had had a good tour and was really beginning to fulfil his potential , but the difference between the two bowling attacks seemed just to be increasing . |
| 12 | It seemed bizarre to be instructing a Baluch builder in the niceties of a fitted kitchen when the man would never have seen one , would never use one . |
| 13 | In saying goodbye to both , and in applauding the sorts of uncertainties and reassessments that the ICA seems set to provide , one regrets only that those other structural mechanisms — the market and the museums particularly — seem unlikely to be following suit . |
| 14 | After the local police were alerted , a man was apprehended suspected to be disturbing the terns and collecting their eggs . |
| 15 | With its main shareholders , M&G , a unit-trust group , which owns 6.9% , and the Kuwait Investment Office ( 10% ) , already nursing losses , Midland seems likely to be heading for the altar before long . |
| 16 | But with persistance that is at least recognisably characteristic of him , Borg seems still to be pressing on . |
| 17 | Salmond has since shown himself responsive to calls for cross-party unity among the opposition , but Brian Wilson ( ‘ The Union strikes back ’ , 24 April ) seems still to be revelling in partisan spite . |
| 18 | The old man seems just to be listening to the noise . |
| 19 | Braiswick herself will be on view in the future , most immediately a week on Sunday at Woodbine , Toronto , on the same card as Old Vic , and , like the dual Derby winner , she seems certain to be sporting the maroon and white colours of Sheikh Mohammed . |
| 20 | It felt strange to be watching in silence all those lives going on , and although we were aware of all the comings and goings of their lives , they did n't even know we existed . |
| 21 | It felt strange to be working so close to their audiences . |
| 22 | It felt strange to be letting himself into his own house again . |
| 23 | It had been easy to agree to Sniffy 's request from the safety of the office but it felt different to be taking the orders of a stranger from Sniffy 's brutal underworld . |
| 24 | As it was , I felt thrilled to be walking on the same ground that young Thomson had trodden long before . |
| 25 | For , though she could n't explain why , it somehow felt disloyal to be discussing Arnie with Guido Falcone . |
| 26 | It was a warm June evening , and I felt glad to be going home . |
| 27 | At least in a plane it feels logical to be flying . |
| 28 | Biggins wondered what it felt like to be living in Nuremberg ; to have heavy bombardment every night . |
| 29 | For their part the Brazilians want to play British oppositon to remind themselves of what it feels like to be searching for the ball in the air for much of the game . |
| 30 | Perhaps the easiest way to explain is to ask you to imagine what it feels like to be lying tucked up , snug and warm , in your own bed at night and being somewhere in that half-and-half land where you are neither completely asleep nor fully awake . |