Example sentences of "of [pers pn] seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patients had all been washed and set up in their chairs and most of them seemed to be almost asleep . |
| 2 | In these circumstances , a determined mother could be free to groom herself , hold office in this or that community activity , or find a job , in order to fulfil herself ; though none of them seemed to be able to explain why acting as a bank teller or the secretary of a charity , for example , was more fulfilling than looking after their own children . |
| 3 | As they watched , a tall tree in front of them seemed to be burning with a white flame . |
| 4 | The only things that might have been classed as narrative were the poems , and they did n't seem to have anything to do with each other , apart from the fact a lot of them seemed to be vaguely about Death , or Love . |
| 5 | All of them seemed to be on rather intimate terms with the proprietress , who was a very handsome , dark-haired woman , tall and well-built , with penetrating eyes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All of them seemed to be toy shops . |
| 8 | Half the board raised their own flagons in answer — most of them seemed to be Hearthwares — and they answered him thunderously , Ratagan loudest of all . |
| 9 | Neither of them seemed to be emergencies , as the callers had n't asked for immediate aid . |
| 10 | Some of them seemed to be actually sobbing . |
| 11 | Most of them seemed to be going in search of tea and for a moment , she hesitated . |
| 12 | ‘ Kitty disappeared off the face of the earth and then without warning turned up in Whitechapel with a man in a motor car ; neither of them seemed to be hers but she looked very pleased with life . ’ |
| 13 | None of them seem to be finding it so terribly difficult to just sit on their brooms . |
| 14 | ‘ Three of them seem to be anonymous , sir , ’ Fox said . |
| 15 | ‘ Yeah , ’ he said after a while , still attacking the oncoming craft , ‘ and a lot of them seem to be politicians and presidents and things . ’ |
| 16 | A lot of them seem to be leaders of countries or religions or armies . |
| 17 | Although the intermediate class most of them seem to be teenagers and twenties . |
| 18 | well somebody else is coming , join onto us , but er learner as well , why most of them seem to be learners do n't they ? |
| 19 | Something in that dark brown gaze of his seemed to be able to squeeze the truth out of her . |
| 20 | It was a very small patch , about the size of a postage stamp , and the two sides of it seemed to be splitting down the middle and opening slowly outwards , like a pair of shutters on some tiny window . |
| 21 | The snow was driving down now but even through that whirling vortex of frozen city detritus , none of it seemed to be making any impression on those glistening black pavements or the tarmac . |
| 22 | But the gist of it seemed to be that there should be an early , and preferably unpleasant , end to the miserable life of the blasphemer and pig-fancier , Wilson . |
| 23 | The skirt is definite , you know , so many pleats , uhum , so obviously that is and the blazer 's static , but quite a lot of it seemed to be fairly , you know , instead of grey , either the school track suit or just a grey track suit , so uhum , which it is , it 's all these little bits like . |
| 24 | But most of it seems to be going to shady ‘ Near Eastern ’ dealers and private citizens . |
| 25 | Slater has a lot of style , even if most of it seems to be on loan from Jack Nicholson ( by way of Peter Falk ) . |
| 26 | Although the majority of the fly seems to be no less dead than a dodo , one side of it seems to be the intact creature it had been 30 seconds earlier . |
| 27 | Much of it seems to be haunted landscape poetry . |
| 28 | A further children 's book on gardening is worth noting here , Let's Go Gardening by Ursula Kruger ( Lutterworth , February , £9.95 , 0 7188 2879 8 ) , though portions of it seem to be the work of Wiggle the Worm and Sunny the Sunflower Seed . |
| 29 | Lifting her out of the water we were totally silent , and neither of us seemed to be willing to commit ourselves on a weight so we just put her in the sling and let the scales do the talking . |
| 30 | And er some of us seemed to be more awkward than others , I mean some people 's feet when you look at them and , and areas like that , that , you think well why did Jehovah make them like that , they 're so ugly and yet without them where would we be ? |