Example sentences of "[pers pn] seem [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seemed to remember statuary and flowers — hibiscus or something flaming red , roses maybe , in great urns — and there were doubtless other bedrooms leading off it with similar softly sliding glass doors . |
| 2 | I seemed to remember harvey having a car crash or something ( was this connected with his booze problem ? ) . |
| 3 | I seemed to remember , you know when my school was about |
| 4 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
| 5 | you know that back door key , I seemed to remember picking a key up thinking it was the garage key |
| 6 | Oh I thought oh I , I , I seemed to remember the Whitney Bay bit and I mean I do n't know what I 've done with the blinking programme last year , I mean they 're all in the magazine rack , but I do n't think that one 's there that was terrific that were n't it ? |
| 7 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 8 | It seemed to suit me and I seemed to suit it and I felt comfortable . |
| 9 | I seemed fated to spend my time with them and it made me feel incomplete as though I were yet unborn . |
| 10 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 11 | I seemed to spend much of my time assisting the chef and painting but this did nothing to damp my enthusiasm . |
| 12 | I seemed to do anything to the car , mind with the water pump I think they check , they have to er adjust the timing . |
| 13 | With two excellent midwives giving advice and encouragement , was born very fast and I seemed to recover almost immediately . |
| 14 | I seemed to live two inches behind the front of my skin , that part of me created wilfully by my lovers . |
| 15 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 16 | I seemed to go round in circles , and I am sure that that has happened to many hon. Members . |
| 17 | I just glanced at both your hands earlier on , just glanced , you know , and I seemed to see something quite unexpected written there . |
| 18 | All I seemed to see was his face — or maybe just his eyes . |
| 19 | I seemed possessed of some extraordinary mad courage . |
| 20 | I seemed to miss out on all the fun in those days , my spells afloat were few and far between , while ashore at Felixstowe I was very busy as trade in that port was building up rapidly . |
| 21 | I remember how calm and serene my father looked as he lay in his coffin and how I seemed to feel something break within me when they lowered the plush-covered lid and we rode behind the hearse to Rosedale Cemetery for the interment . |
| 22 | But the thought refused to depart that my refuge , this whole vast Cathedral , stone , paper , metal , cloth , wood , everything had gone wrong , sick , contagious ; it had turned against me ; even the Bibles were against me ; I seemed to feel their angry pulse on my back — bump , bump , bump , bump … |
| 23 | It seems I , oh I seemed to feel that it , it was , if we wanted to see three it was gon na upset , well they seemed that , I thought it would save money if they |
| 24 | And , with each scrap of information I unearthed about Tom Tunney , I seemed to forget something about myself . |
| 25 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 26 | I slip into the pitfall of subjectivity with trepidation , but observing my fellow patients , I seemed to discern a distinct pattern so far as stress was concerned . |
| 27 | Everyone watched me , pleased that I seemed impressed . |
| 28 | No other flowers were in the garden , yet I seemed to smell the strong scent of nicotiana . |
| 29 | After countless ages I seemed to come back to a real realisation that I was continuing to breathe , even if with difficulty , and did n't seem in immediate danger of stopping . |
| 30 | Several times on my pilgrimage through Biomorph Land I seemed to come close to a precursor of my insects , but , then , in spite of my best efforts as a selecting agent , evolution went off on what proved to be a false trail . |