Example sentences of "[pron] seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it should be added that at the press preview , I seemed to be only one of several spectators who chose to devote themselves during these scenes to a meticulous scrutiny of their shoes . |
| 2 | I seemed to be drifting from one thing to another , trying to please my parents and trying to do the opposite from Pat , to be different . |
| 3 | I seemed to be standing outside myself and observing , as often one does on the most dramatic occasions of life . |
| 4 | The goat bells receded and I seemed to be moving through even deeper layers of peace . |
| 5 | I seemed to be running better and better , more powerfully . |
| 6 | I was never assaulted , never kicked out of my home or sacked , even though I seemed to be inviting it . |
| 7 | Anthony , of Chipping Sodbury , near Bristol , said : ‘ I seemed to be falling for ages . |
| 8 | Instead I seemed to be set at the centre of a largish halo of believable ambience . |
| 9 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 10 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 11 | I seemed to be detached from myself , watching myself as I sat spooning sugar into my cup , seeing the brown liquid absorb the solid grains , thinking about the incidents of my life that clogged the flow of time . |
| 12 | I seemed to be standing still . |
| 13 | I seemed to be taking up more than my share of the space , and the grief was bad again . |
| 14 | At eight o'clock I could see the faces of the audience well enough , but by and by the room became quite dark , and I seemed to be addressing an audience of silent and attentive ghosts . |
| 15 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 16 | I seemed to be watching myself acting in a film . |
| 17 | She looked me over , said I seemed to be a nice girl and announced that she had just the job for me — taking her goats out for a walk ! |
| 18 | True , I seemed to be alive and intact . |
| 19 | I had never done him any harm , yet I seemed to be the object of a deliberate campaign . |
| 20 | For an instant I seemed to be staring into smoke . |
| 21 | The only place I seemed to be able to reach you was in bed . |
| 22 | Twice I rose and tried to help her , but I seemed to be in a different dream . |
| 23 | I seemed to be a lot happier than the rest of my fellow travellers who seemed to be very sleepy . |
| 24 | So the only way I seemed to be able to keep Arthur was to become dependent on him . ’ |
| 25 | I must also apologize if I seemed to be trying to put you off them . |
| 26 | There were , of course , some hidden benefits to being the head boy amongst the junior pilots , I seemed to be something of a senior subaltern , and as such donned the mantle which brings to mind the old chestnut about this essential character in regimental life who enters the Mess , sees a great array of flowers and demands " who put those bloody flowers there ? " |
| 27 | Something in that dark brown gaze of his seemed to be able to squeeze the truth out of her . |
| 28 | Francis is knocked out and so am I. I seem to be doing more and more advisory art stuff for Lucy 's magazine , positively volunteering , my dear , what is happening ? |
| 29 | My most perfect memories of sensual delight are those enveloped in a landscape which absorbs it and in which I seem to be swallowed up . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a name I seem to be stuck with , but it really would be nice to be called something else for a change , says actor Nigel Havers , best known for his role in the ITV series of the same name . |