Example sentences of "that [pron] seemed [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives . |
| 32 | I just thought that it seemed to be , you know ? |
| 33 | He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop . |
| 34 | The press and the experts had put the monkey on his back that he could n't win a major , that he seemed to be ‘ choking on Sundays ’ . |
| 35 | The irritating thing was that he seemed to be unaware of the beneficial effects of AZT , or the creative potential of AIDS sufferers . |
| 36 | Tralhaut comments that he seemed to be almost glorying in his failure to break down the barriers and ‘ storm the fortress ’ of his love 's frozen heart . |
| 37 | It was disappointing , though , that he seemed to be knocking the efforts of those with other aims : ‘ How can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? ’ |
| 38 | ‘ Only that he seemed to be in a decent position , and that he died . ’ |
| 39 | Only centimetres from his eyes and mouth , the hydra blurred and soaked up his voice so that he seemed to be shouting underwater . |
| 40 | In the course of explaining his various duties to Virginia Woolf he confessed that he seemed to be turning into an " Old Buffer " and wondered if he might not also be guilty of humbug . |
| 41 | She settled him in his chair , and was relieved to see that he seemed to be calming down a little . |
| 42 | He was a very successful , very good-looking professional in his mid-thirties — just as Tom Russell was , although that was irrelevant , of course — and to find that he seemed to be interested in her was satisfying somehow . |
| 43 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | There was a cool mockery in his deep voice , and she turned to glare at him , hating him for the fact that he seemed to be deriving amusement from her discomfort . |
| 46 | She glanced at David and wryly saw that he seemed to be listening to this conversation with great interest . |