Example sentences of "seem to have [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The woman she seemed to have become over the course of a single weekend — just forty-eight hours — bore no resemblance to the vague mental picture she had always , possibly complacently , had of herself . |
| 2 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 3 | Mr Cole said Johanna seemed to have got over the break-up with her boyfriend , who joined the search for her . |
| 4 | Patience is not what we associate with Pound , and from time to time he seems to have kicked over the traces ( at least once to be ticked off for it by Dorothy ) : yet we see all over again that the young Pound was well content with Edwardian England , was hopeful of it and ready to abide by its rules in everything that mattered . |
| 5 | North wanted the Monimbo seized or sunk ; Poindexter wanted ‘ measures taken to make sure ship does not arrive in Nicaragua ’ ; McFarlane seems to have choked over the legality of piracy , and the ship and the rifles got through . |
| 6 | He seems to have got over the shock pretty quickly . ’ |
| 7 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 8 | it seems to have changed over the last few years |