Example sentences of "and [pers pn] seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goat bells receded and I seemed to be moving through even deeper layers of peace . |
| 2 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 3 | At eight o'clock I could see the faces of the audience well enough , but by and by the room became quite dark , and I seemed to be addressing an audience of silent and attentive ghosts . |
| 4 | Actually , 1 agree with you : there 's something awry here and I seem to be caught in the middle of it . |
| 5 | In fact I rather hate paint and I seem to be constantly at war with it . |
| 6 | And I seem to be a social worker most of the time . |
| 7 | Tod and I seem to be on top of the work , and nobody has complained so far . |
| 8 | Incidentally , I 've just had another medical , this time for insurance , and I seem to be perfectly fine , except for one thing , I 've grown . |
| 9 | And I seem to be the last person to have seen him . ’ |
| 10 | I if I could just come in there you mentioned this er if you changed your mind on goods , and you seemed to be defining the legal position . |
| 11 | Get to a situation where you 've had a caravan before and to make any money to pay , you 've then got to buy another caravan to subsidise that one and you seem to be it 's sort of |
| 12 | I mean no one noticed anything unusual about her and she seemed to be full of plans for the wedding . ’ |
| 13 | Her nose was cold and she seemed to be perfectly well so I clipped on her lead and carried her outside . |
| 14 | Granny 's crepe paper slipped over one eye and she seemed to be saying ‘ Serves them right . ’ |
| 15 | An adult , presumably the female , came close inshore , followed by two young ones , and she seemed to be teaching them to fish , but after a few splashing sallies with no success she gave up , and dived away . |
| 16 | I was just a little curious and she seemed to be er |
| 17 | For they were melting as she stood there , and she seemed to be liquid inside too , her limbs strangely turning to water . |
| 18 | And yet despite all this the pounds were creeping up on us and we seemed to be fighting a losing battle . |
| 19 | He 'd come round and it had been so nice , and we seemed to be so comfortable with each other , not just in bed you know , and it did n't occur to me we would n't do things together and see each other . |
| 20 | The doctor 's trying some different medication , and we seem to be doing quite well with it at the moment . ’ |
| 21 | Couple it , too , with the reflections about the abortive and incoherent nature of the counter-culture and counter-course movement in higher education , and we seem to be emerging with a depressing set of conclusions about the wider cultural function of higher education . |
| 22 | And we seem to be at the moment watching the dismantling and the decline of the National Health Service . |
| 23 | I know we are playing well and Sunderland are a bag of shite but its a cup match and we seem to be shit at cup matches . |
| 24 | We were most anxious to keep the full informed of what 's happening and we seem to be on top of the job as it were . |
| 25 | erm But they 've got themselves together again and we seem to be picking up . |
| 26 | Their eyes were fixed on each other in cold fury , their hands placed on the table , palms down , and they seemed to be waiting — waiting for |
| 27 | But the cook was in fine form and they seemed to be thawing a bit when I left them chattering away in Greek with Denholm sitting among them and not understanding a word they were saying . |
| 28 | , yes that 's , erm yeah , I , last month I received the er , this booklet on the trade and they seemed to be coming out to doing campaign on erm a collection between British training and goods , er and their use abroad erm , and they now , they 've got a , a booking form for a fringe meeting at the A G M , if anyone 's particularly interested attending . |
| 29 | And they had hundreds and hundreds of hens in deep litter and they seemed to be making a lot of money out of it . |
| 30 | And they seemed to be old friends . ’ |