Example sentences of "he seem to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a slow sensuous laziness to his movements contradicted by the dangerously hard angles of his face , the flashing darkness of his eyes which no matter how covertly she looked at him seemed to be gazing at her . |
| 2 | But the odd tension which had been nagging at him seemed to be increasing . |
| 3 | The noises had become louder , the lights were brighter and sharper , and the people around him seemed to be turning into over-expansive parodies of their true selves . |
| 4 | He seemed to be drawing her willing body towards his again , but this time she remembered her vow to resist him . |
| 5 | He seemed to be towering over her before he even got near but Ana heard her voice and stopped , cantering back towards her . |
| 6 | He seemed to be expecting her to say something . |
| 7 | He seemed to be considering it , as if wondering if something had been overlooked , but when he turned round , the pain in his eyes was almost too much for Melissa to bear . |
| 8 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 9 | He seemed to be listening . |
| 10 | In speaking to others , he seemed to be listening for , watching , her reactions . |
| 11 | She glanced at David and wryly saw that he seemed to be listening to this conversation with great interest . |
| 12 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 13 | In some peculiar way he seemed to be getting into his stride . |
| 14 | Whatever it was , it was very tinkly and repetitive , and often , just as he seemed to be getting somewhere , Meredith broke off and started all over again . |
| 15 | He seemed to be getting very religious all of a sudden . |
| 16 | Though Amiss was not entirely convinced that Trueman had been murdered , he did feel a sense of unease about the Admiral 's safety , so he was relieved to see that he seemed to be getting on rather better with his committee colleagues than the Sunday experiences had promised . |
| 17 | He did n't wander over to the rack of imported American comic books as he usually did , but he seemed to be watching the street outside . |
| 18 | He seemed to be watching her like a hawk , waiting for some reaction . |
| 19 | He seemed to be lost in his own thoughts . |
| 20 | Tallis could not see clearly but he seemed to be pushing something on to the staff , working it round until , with a crack , it slid into position . |
| 21 | Joel Swanson did not understand , nor did he ever expect to understand , exactly what was going on , but the kind of activity he seemed to be hearing about , in snatches only , was more or less exactly what he 'd expect from his wife 's relatives . |
| 22 | For example , he seemed to be advocating no advice from the teacher in a child 's selection of books . |
| 23 | He seemed to be holding his breath . |
| 24 | One observer who met him in November of this year at Lady Colefax recollected that " he seemed to be holding himself together , almost as if he were a piece of riveted china " . " |
| 25 | He seemed to be whistling his way along . |
| 26 | It was Wharton 's 14th win in 15 fights — the other bout ended in a draw — but he seemed to be allowing the fight to slip away from him through uncharacteristic casualness in the fifth and sixth rounds . |
| 27 | But back in the mid-Eighties he seemed to be taking his role a little too seriously . |
| 28 | She resented the way in which he seemed to be taking over , insinuating himself into the family as cunningly as he once had in Oxford . |
| 29 | But his face was serious now , and he seemed to be taking an inordinate interest in the grain of his desktop . |
| 30 | One thing about him struck Pumfrey as being unboyish : he seemed to be taking no pleasure from being so sensationally at the centre of things . |