Example sentences of "he seems have " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ He seems to have surrounded himself with every comfort ; but that is hardly surprising , if he has stayed here all the week for ten years . ’ |
| 32 | He seems to have been a bit of a wastrel , from what Kebbel told us . ’ |
| 33 | I met Jenkinson briefly and he seems to have plenty of practical , if not authorial experience ; there is apparently a profile of him in January 's EFL Gazette . |
| 34 | But he seems to have one problem that I 'm too embarrassed to ask him about . |
| 35 | Clearly Cherrington was not above such tactics either , for he seems to have destroyed the ditch . |
| 36 | On the whole he seems to have found this an unrewarding period professionally as well as personally , which drove him , like George Somerset in A Laodicean , to indulge in ‘ an old enthusiasm for poetical literature ’ . |
| 37 | However , in early days he seems to have led a sunny existence . |
| 38 | So at home Milton is just one of the others , although he seems to have enough tricks up his sleeve to ensure that he gets his own way most of the time . |
| 39 | Whether El Cid acted in a position of arbiter , as Ferdinand had intended , is not known ; he seems to have stepped aside from the almost continuous wrangling of the brothers . |
| 40 | He seems to have been content with his wife , though he saw little enough of her in the years which followed . |
| 41 | For his part , he seems to have enjoyed Cornwall , which he described as a walker 's paradise and ‘ … romantic to a degree ’ , though he confessed he would not like to live in it . |
| 42 | At the outset he seems to have been on congenial terms with Palmerston , but their relationship went sour during Hall 's two-and-a-half years at the Office of Works : and almost from the date of Hall 's appointment , events started to go badly for Pennethorne . |
| 43 | He seems to have been shy and introspective , but liked it to be known that his was the power behind the scenes . |
| 44 | Perhaps the retention of the State Paper Office and its adjacent houses led Scott to this asymmetrical composition , but he seems to have made little attempt to relate the design of his central tower to Soane 's Italianate structure even though it would have been only approximately 20 feet ( 6.096 m ) away . |
| 45 | Edward Ellice , an MP for Coventry , said that he had been asked to accompany his friend Lord Elcho , and although he seems to have been a political ally of Elcho 's his view of Scott 's design was very different . |
| 46 | He seems to have had a good acquaintance with the theory and practice of shoeing , though we can not admit his claim to originality . |
| 47 | He seems to have largely ceased to make these large sketches by 1814 although smaller and less interesting ones exist until 1820 . |
| 48 | Although he seems to have the hang of it pretty well , a Harvard physicist named Thomas McMahon spent some time relearning this process on a computer . |
| 49 | But now he seems to have attracted the attention of Chesky Records ( the CD of Wild 's dazzling Gershwin transcriptions is on Chesky CD32 ) . |
| 50 | But apart from hunting , he seems to have left the business of government to his earls , although he continued to enjoy the society of churchmen , especially of foreign churchmen , gave his heart to the building of Westminster Abbey , engaged in the royal works of mercy , stood meekly through divine office and mass , and — a special note of conscientiousness — ‘ at these times , unless he was addressed , he rarely spoke to anyone ’ . |
| 51 | He seems to have been a solitary child , happiest in his own company . |
| 52 | He seems to have decided long before assuming responsibility for the government of Northern Nigeria that in general some form of indirect administration was ‘ in accordance with the spirit of British colonial rule ’ , which was benevolent and not ‘ arbitrary and despotic ’ . |
| 53 | These he seems to have been given , or as near as made no difference . |
| 54 | Nolan lists some diseases he seems to have more success with than others : arthritis , migraine , bad backs , depression , ME . |
| 55 | ‘ Well , he seems to have made a complete balls of it , ’ said Sir Harry . |
| 56 | With some people this might be mere bravado , but when Wordsworth was on his way back to England he seems to have lingered in Paris far longer than was necessary , and possibly considered active participation in practical politics ( Prelude 1805 , x , 129 ff ) . |
| 57 | After receiving a government post ( in 1813 ) he seems to have felt bound to repay the debt of obligation by political services , especially at election times . |
| 58 | Books were few , but there was ample time to write ; as Coleridge , proficient in German after two months , put it : ‘ He seems to have employed more time in writing English than in studying German . ’ |
| 59 | By 1794 he seems to have had enough of undisciplined emotion and of the actions of Robespierre , Rousseau 's fervent disciple ; and therefore rushed to embrace a new philosophy of reason and nonviolence . |
| 60 | In the tradition of Wilfrid , he seems to have taught the men of Lewes and Bramber how to fish ( they must have been very forgetful ) , or at least blessed their nets . |