Example sentences of "seem to have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It erm I suppose released a great deal of pressure that seemed to have been building up . |
| 2 | Although everyone somehow seemed to have been looking the other way at the time , the young man 's explanation was accepted and written down in his file to make it true . |
| 3 | They seemed to have been stumbling through pitch blackness for hours now . |
| 4 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 5 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 6 | She was even paler than usual , and seemed to have been crying . |
| 7 | He was wiping blood from his face and seemed to have been fighting . |
| 8 | People seemed to have been disappearing all the afternoon , one after another . |
| 9 | Headland has persuasively argued that , just as with the pygmies above , there was just not enough food for such groups in the forest itself ; in this case , the people seemed to have been trading wild meat for goods including carbohydrate and , indeed , may have grown it themselves in the past . |
| 10 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |
| 11 | The guard seemed to have been daydreaming when the two scientists approached . |
| 12 | Dudley Ford had his suspicions and the police seemed to have been doing a pretty thorough job on him … but Doug Wilson believed that Shergold lacked the nerve and she was inclined to agree with him . |
| 13 | Alex Household had been excellent in the part , but , in retrospect , he seemed to have been giving an actor 's interpretation of a man fifteen years older than himself . |
| 14 | He seemed to have been driving for ever . |
| 15 | Jessamy suddenly grew tired of the silly games that everyone seemed to have been playing with her lately . |
| 16 | Marius Steen , the giant who seemed to have been looming over his life now for a week was about to be confronted . |
| 17 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 18 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 19 | Dickerson and Lee seem to have been saving Malcolm X up for years ; they were buddies at film school . |
| 20 | In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether . |
| 21 | I seem to have been blathering on and on . |
| 22 | Amis has only three definite things in his life ; his skills , his van , and his career plan , and all of them seem to have been taking a beating over the past few weeks . |
| 23 | Following on from the evidence of tension in Permian Europe , in the Trias there seem to have been rifting structures everywhere , such as , for example , the horst and graben structures of the Midland coalfields of England . |
| 24 | You seem to have been avoiding me since lunch . ’ |
| 25 | Yet so far I seem to have been treating nothing worse than chicken pox and ‘ flu . |
| 26 | You seem to have been doing rather well out of those . ’ |
| 27 | Firms within the zones seem to have been doing better than equivalent companies elsewhere . |
| 28 | The heaviest copper head from Ife weighs almost 7 kg so the Ife smiths seem to have been working at the limits of this technique . |
| 29 | Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham were working six or seven hours in 1765 but seem to have been working at least eight by the end of the century , as Whitehaven 's colliers had already been doing in 1765 . |
| 30 | They seem to have been missing in action , releasing a couple of singles off the last album without providing any back-up tours to promote them . |