Example sentences of "seemed to [be] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 2 | A far distant bell in her exhausted mind seemed to be ringing some kind of warning . |
| 3 | Past and present seemed to be animating each other in almost an Eliotic manner . |
| 4 | He considered this , or seemed to be considering this . |
| 5 | We seemed to be peeing more than we could possibly have drunk . |
| 6 | Michael was livid that Hemmings , in the cloakrooms , seemed to be getting all the way with one of the girls while Crawford/Ingram was off in a corner with another girl — ‘ simply practising how long we could kiss ’ . ’ |
| 7 | Yet the yawning emptiness out here upon the vast deck already seemed to be swallowing any sense of connexion with the interior of the fortress-monastery … |
| 8 | I said of course you were deep in domesticity and waiting for the baby and she said that was what so many good students seemed to be choosing these days … " |
| 9 | Werewolf and I were numbers three and four in the queue and the Sergeant had to tap his watch a couple of times as Werewolf seemed to be requiring more help than the rest of us from Private Boyd in getting his belt on . |
| 10 | Lady Roscarrock seemed to be containing some inner pressure that was about to erupt . |
| 11 | Werewolf seemed to be conducting some sort of slaughter out there . |
| 12 | The Great Spirit … seemed to be looking some other way , and did not see what was being done to my people . |
| 13 | They appeared in buoyant spirits , and seemed to be telling each other jokes . |
| 14 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 15 | It was probably an optical illusion , but the place seemed to be flying more eagles and swastikas than stars and stripes . |
| 16 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 17 | By the time it reached London , what seemed to be missing most of all was the play itself . |
| 18 | Well they , they seemed to be putting some finance in , but er it went through a bit of a flat spot and then the sold out I , I 'm sorry I 'm stuttering and all this but I have n't done my research you know and it , it 's , it 's tough going . |
| 19 | That evening Ted Hammond emerged from his house , wearing the old dressing-gown in which he seemed to be spending most of his time these days , and carrying a stiff drink . |
| 20 | No one seemed to be paying much attention to the backgrounds . |
| 21 | I may have been being a bit selfish , but I could n't bear to lose him in that way , and he seemed to be making such an effort himself , not ever putting weight on that leg and eating as much as he could . |
| 22 | Craig 's Vanguard Movement seemed to be making most of the running on the right wing of unionist politics and the DUP seemed to lack a clear policy direction . |
| 23 | The snow was driving down now but even through that whirling vortex of frozen city detritus , none of it seemed to be making any impression on those glistening black pavements or the tarmac . |
| 24 | He then brought up the £8000 to £8,000 by steering clear of the OTC , and the vicar was ecstatic that at last he seemed to be making some money . |
| 25 | He seemed to be making some impression on the person at the other end of the phone . |
| 26 | The social worker seemed to be dangling that last word before Gilly 's nose , as if expecting her to jump up on her hind legs and dance for it . |
| 27 | Perhaps that was why I was so angry , because it seemed to be going that way . |
| 28 | The stoppage dropped Mansell into seventh place with 15 laps to go and his battle with race leader Ayrton Senna seemed to be going all the Brazilian 's way . |
| 29 | He seemed to be doing this for our benefit , unaware that the sound-track was in our own language . |
| 30 | The driver seemed to be playing some kind of survival game with the girls of the Navimore School : he slowed down out of courtesy to the bus stop sign , but took it no further than that . |