Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] seem to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 2 | I already seem to be overloading a non-existent syllabus . |
| 3 | It 's hard to tell , cos I always seemed to be awake , but then I remember waking up with a jump when this voice comes over the loud speaker . |
| 4 | I 'm wearing a denim waistcoat , cheesecloth shirt and baggy denim jeans , and I 'm smiling fit to burst , as I always seem to be in photographs . |
| 5 | All the effects work well , although I think ( as I always seem to these days ) that the distortion sounds , while varied , could be less processed . |
| 6 | I always seem to be landing you in it . ’ |
| 7 | But I wriggled my way in … as I always seem to . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I always seem to be sitting around on verandas with you , Johnny . |
| 9 | I always seem to be reading about a new food scare . |
| 10 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 11 | In spite of all my education , I still seemed to be the coarse , common boy she used to laugh at . |
| 12 | I never seemed to be sort of up to the other scholars at all . |
| 13 | Well , you know , it you see , time were , I do n't know I suppose , I do n't know but I never seemed to be afraid and I used to have my or something round my waist , a belt with the keys hanging on and they supplied me with a as well , one of these , I do n't know what they 're made of they were n't all that heavy but still they were heavy enough to keep on . |
| 14 | I never seem to be able to get rid of it . |
| 15 | ‘ I never seem to be able to think straight when I 'm with you . |
| 16 | It sounds a lame excuse , I know , but I never seem to be able to find the time . |
| 17 | I was just six then , and while Blyth knew that I had had some sort of little accident when I was much younger I certainly seemed to him to be a lot more able-bodied that he was . |
| 18 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |
| 19 | She know that and she just seems to be like a vicious circle all the time , I mean she does n't , I mean just getting deeper , deeper into debt . |
| 20 | Sa , she her eyes are getting blacker every time and she she just seems to be in her books all the time , and everything now . |
| 21 | If she ever saw her , she thought worriedly ; she always seemed to be rushing off somewhere — and then she jumped when someone tapped on the door . |
| 22 | I mean she could come up to us , but she always seems to be rushing about , here , there and everywhere do n't she ? |
| 23 | You still seem to be his prime suspect . ’ |
| 24 | She hardly seemed to be listening to what he was saying . |
| 25 | For a few agonizing minutes the camera holds on her face as she experiences — she hardly seems to be enjoying — sexual attentions out of the range of the camera . |
| 26 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 27 | It 's what you always seem to be doing . ’ |
| 28 | You always seem to be . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't understand why you always seem to be in such a tearing hurry ; why do n't you just relax for five minutes and sit down ? ’ |
| 30 | Do you always seem to be shifting things along on your worktops in order to make room to prepare something ? |