Example sentences of "seem have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ukrainian Anton Solomoukha 's ‘ Mechanical Toys ’ , being shown by Philippe Gravier until 20 January , seem to have stepped from the pages of a 1930s toy catalogue . |
| 2 | ‘ You seem to have fallen from the top of a Christmas tree , Fräulein , ’ he said spitefully . |
| 3 | Their numbers seem to have grown from around 5,000 in the early seventeenth century to about 20,000 a century later . |
| 4 | The Cow 's Lip is divided into two parts ; the front has the mural and stage , and a pool table off to the right , and several scattered booths stuffed with groups of locals who seem to have grown from their tough wood benches , like the clustered branches of an ancient , overgrown tree . |
| 5 | Very few of them seem to have profited from their careers in anything but a short-term way . |
| 6 | All the Burrows children were " born energetic " , a characteristic they seem to have inherited from their parents . |
| 7 | ( I can not bring myself to follow the grotesque habit which Methodists seem to have learned from the Labour Party of dropping the definite article and so ‘ Conference does this or that ’ never ‘ The Conference . ’ ) |
| 8 | So strong is the nostalgia , that Mao , Chou En-lai and other founders of ‘ new China ’ often seem to have returned from the dead . |
| 9 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 10 | Comparable units in the two ranges seem to have come from an oceanic trough that was torn apart and thrust in opposite directions . |
| 11 | Is this why the Unit and all its works seem to have disappeared from the records — because it was unthinkable that such a document should officially exist ? |
| 12 | Yet the people who were paid off seem to have disappeared from the jobs market . ’ |
| 13 | Center Parcs , as seen on TV , are based around tropical atmosphere , a swimming pool and futuristic dome , an idea the Dutch seem to have stolen from Jeff Tracy of International Rescue . |