Example sentences of "[pers pn] seem to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked me over , said I seemed to be a nice girl and announced that she had just the job for me — taking her goats out for a walk ! |
| 2 | I seemed to be a lot happier than the rest of my fellow travellers who seemed to be very sleepy . |
| 3 | I had never done him any harm , yet I seemed to be the object of a deliberate campaign . |
| 4 | I seem to be a permanent figure in this small town , loitering under the shade of a eucalyptus , with my blue sunhat pulled over my eyes . |
| 5 | And I seem to be a social worker most of the time . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , Miss Walkinshaw , but I seem to be a trifle under the weather this afternoon . |
| 7 | And I seem to be the last person to have seen him . ’ |
| 8 | At the same time they saw a causal link between the predicament of the peasants and their own frustrations ; the political , social , and cultural constrictions which impinged directly upon them seemed to be the product of a society based upon oppression of the masses . |
| 9 | Most of them seemed to be the kind that took the prepaid cards that he never had , but there were a couple of pay booths at the end of the row and he made for those . |
| 10 | No , but I thought you seemed to be a long while getting the bugger out . |
| 11 | Ana had no trouble with her mount ; to Maggie 's surprise she seemed to be an expert horsewoman and Mitch too seemed to take to the activity like a veteran . |
| 12 | One doctor , driven to desperation by a patient , found herself saying , ‘ You seem to be a very strong woman and you have managed to reduce your husband to impotence . |
| 13 | He did n't refer to it directly , but he did observe mildly , " You seem to be a power in the City . |
| 14 | ‘ You have excellent hearing , apparently , ’ he said , ‘ but you seem to be a bit slow on the uptake . ’ |
| 15 | Tell me honestly — you seem to be a friend — does she have any trouble with boyfriends ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Only that you seem to be the darling of the tabloids , ’ she muttered . |
| 17 | But Jeffrey Katzenberg , chairman of Walt Disney , says : ‘ She seems to be a person who stirs up publicity for herself by attacking her directors and leading men . |
| 18 | In this way she seems to be a very stubborn character . |
| 19 | Well , we seem to be a society that is very much orientated to crisis management rather than prevention , and perhaps we 're very good at recognizing our human needs and our children 's needs in terms of their nourishment , their physical and intellectual development , but perhaps not quite so well acquainted with their emotional needs to feel safe and secure with the adults around them being in control and able to handle their lives and the world 's situation in a mature and secure way . |
| 20 | We seem to be the only syndicate that 's involved in all three natural disasters . |
| 21 | After all , we were n't the only ones that were approached ‘ in secret ’ by Lazio , but we seem to be the ones that made it public . |
| 22 | We seem to be an unscientific nation . |
| 23 | Going along with him seemed to be the best way of getting rid of him . |
| 24 | When The Smiths first appeared they seemed to be a reaction against the opulence/corpulence of nouveau riche new pop . |
| 25 | They seemed to be a peace-offering from above , as if God were apologizing . |
| 26 | On our arrival at Royston all of the rumours about the Royston team were quickly dispelled ; they seemed to be a very formidable lot . |
| 27 | They seemed to be a very high risk group of patients . |
| 28 | They seemed to be a there in it 's entirety and erm Graham and Kirsty , they were away with their gran . |
| 29 | Both were subject to easily measured norms , timetables and co-ordinated planning : therefore of all systems they seemed to be the most suitable for the immediate application of Taylorism and what Lenin called ‘ the precision of clockwork ’ . |
| 30 | They seemed to be the only two vessels moving on the dark water ; The Abbott was almost invisible in the gloom . |