Example sentences of "seem [prep] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this one , a frenzied crowd seemed to be dismantling two locomotives made of rubber . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A far distant bell in her exhausted mind seemed to be ringing some kind of warning . |
| 4 | Further along the bay , it seemed to be taking five flunkeys in grey uniforms a lot of effort to usher one middle-aged man into a chauffeur-driven Bentley . |
| 5 | The questions she had feared earlier seemed to be taking physical shape in the shadowy corners of the room , phantoms waiting to trap her if she dropped her guard for so much as a second . |
| 6 | Past and present seemed to be animating each other in almost an Eliotic manner . |
| 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 | He looked around briefly at the women with the scraggy necks in the Laura Ashley dresses , and the men who all seemed to be wearing red ties , and probably Seiko watches — but for a different reason from Bob . |
| 9 | 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 … " |
| 10 | We could show when design decisions were forced by that architecture , and when the systems seemed to be facing common problems . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Werewolf seemed to be conducting some sort of slaughter out there . |
| 13 | He liked Mrs Robson , he had become very fond of her : she was down to earth , and she seemed to bring him out of himself , but she seemed to be harbouring serious ideas about Maggie and him . |
| 14 | They appeared in buoyant spirits , and seemed to be telling each other jokes . |
| 15 | By the 1970s record manufacturers seemed to be forming new logos ( or trade-names ) as fast as they could , and the entry of hundreds of small independent companies added to the confusion . |
| 16 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 17 | In retrospect the debates on the Bill had a curious air of unreality … government spokesmen often seemed to be stating simple lessons in economic theory … |
| 18 | It was probably an optical illusion , but the place seemed to be flying more eagles and swastikas than stars and stripes . |
| 19 | They were 15 minutes from a battling victory at St James ' Park and seemed to be riding tremendous pressure when referee Steve Bell stepped in to award the Division One high-fliers a spot kick . |
| 20 | All points seemed to be given equal emphasis . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And when things were going against his men he seemed to be suffering mental agonies . |
| 23 | No one seemed to be paying much attention to the backgrounds . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He could feel it even with his hands over his ears ; it seemed to be making unpleasant bubbles in his head . |
| 26 | In fact , although the Hamptons were approximately eighty miles from the centre of New York , the fast sports car seemed to be making light work of the journey . |
| 27 | Of the original concept , only weatherman Francis Wilson survives and even he seemed to be making conscious efforts not to call clouds ‘ white , fluffy bits ’ , as has been his trick . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He seemed to be making some impression on the person at the other end of the phone . |
| 30 | Within a few years some observers even began to sense in his reforms the triumph of capitalism over Communism , in that the USSR seemed to be adopting Western methods . |