Example sentences of "what [pers pn] seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Ben could n't see what she seemed to be seeing — one moment a piece of shabby pewter , the next something that poured with sighing light . |
| 2 | ‘ Please take notice that I sometimes need to be the real me ’ , is what she seems to be really saying through the way she 's portrayed herself . ’ |
| 3 | We 've also seen it happening , to an extent in properties in Bishopsfield as well erm I really think we need to get to grips with what we seem to be doing , which de-counting people prematurely early er , in response to , to housing developments which we are planning to undertake in in partnership with other people and leaving ourselves open to this and not |
| 4 | We seldom read in the tabloid press local police force fails er we may frequently read in the local press in the tabloid press rather , that the Home Secretary has failed and yet what we seem to be saying is that we believe that all the responsibility should be local , all that responsibility , all the blame when things go wrong should go to the Home Secretary . |
| 5 | What we seem , what we seem to be doing is increase the provision |
| 6 | er , I tell you what we seem to be having difficulties with |
| 7 | She would stay , here where things were what they seemed to be , where trees were trees , hens were hens . |
| 8 | In some cases people are invited into a laboratory and may be given tasks to carry out which may or may not be quite what they seem to be . |
| 9 | What they seem to be saying about outcomes of adoption is quite positive but nevertheless we should be warned that the heady days of ‘ no child is unadoptable ’ are in the past . |
| 10 | We all know that the task we 've set the officers is to manage within the budgets they 've been given , and to have no cuts in services , and no compulsory redundancies , and thi this is their challenge and this is what they seem to be achieving , and I think we should applaud them for that . |
| 11 | That 's what they seem to be going towards now , are n't they ? |
| 12 | He looked twice at the hurrying man , but decided that , like the others , he was what he seemed to be . |
| 13 | After all , what he seemed to be suggesting was that a woman with her not inconsiderable sex drive might have been expected , long ago , to have found a man to satisfy it . |
| 14 | But what he seemed to be sensing was that the boy was dangerous . |
| 15 | Although many attribute to Lo Tak-shing possession of the most byzantine — and very possibly the cleverest -mind in Hong Kong politics , few claim to understand quite what he seems to be doing with it . |
| 16 | At first sight what he seems to be saying is simply that no one is going to take any notice of the conclusions which a rational woman reaches after deliberation . |
| 17 | ‘ But I know he is n't what he seems to be . |
| 18 | How could Mrs Hollidaye consider allowing Dot to return to that unsafe place where the air robbed your cheeks of their roses , where buildings collapsed though the bombs had long since stopped , where there was no glass in half the windows , no water in the taps , where nothing was quite what it seemed to be . |
| 19 | To them it was what it seemed to be , a pleasant green meadow . |
| 20 | But no quarrel in England is ever about what it seems to be about . |
| 21 | ‘ With him nothing is what it seems to be . ’ |
| 22 | But I 've copied over to the same place , what it seems to be doing provided the cell pointed out , you 're looking at the top left . |
| 23 | Nothing is what it seems to be . ’ |
| 24 | All is not what it seems to be ; ’ |