Example sentences of "seemed to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In schools where there was no committee , librarians seemed to have reverted to traditional allegiances ( e.g. with the English department ) and were " going it alone " as before , though undoubtedly in a rather more fertile and responsive climate , and in some cases with a slightly enhanced allocation of free periods . |
| 2 | His manner seemed to have reverted to normal . |
| 3 | Even a week of sitting there , supping in the beer by a kind of osmosis through the atmosphere , and eating solid sandwiches , seemed to have deposited a tiny roll of fat round his waist . |
| 4 | The cut on her brow seemed to have healed completely ; Adam 's had disappeared as well , she thought , remembering as best she could . |
| 5 | It seemed to have swollen in her chest , huge and hot , and its painful drumming shook her frail body as if to burst it apart . |
| 6 | Half the racing world seemed to have embraced the occasion , for which after the last race that afternoon there had been much speedy unrolling of glittering black and silver ceiling-to-floor curtaining , transforming the workaday interior of the grandstand into something ephemerally magnificent . |
| 7 | Our classification of references to the care programme approach along a hypothetical assimilation-adaptation continuum suggests that roughly half of local authorities which mention the care programme approach in their plans seemed to have assimilated it , and half were adapting to it at the time of composing the community care plan . |
| 8 | ‘ He got better — went back to the Fire Service , ’ she said , but Eileen 's innocent remark seemed to have touched some nerve which made her say bitterly , ‘ He went back to scrimping and saving to keep his horrible wife in comfort in a nursing home . |
| 9 | He seemed to have decided that now was the right time to clean the Great Hall floor and was poking the mop head in among the boys ’ legs , muttering to himself . |
| 10 | She seemed to have decided that he was responsible for all this . |
| 11 | Generally , these cash buyers seemed to have made a fair assessment of their chances , in that they were unemployed or already had great difficulty matching small incomes to their outgoings . |
| 12 | Øster wrote in the introduction to his paper that the publication of Gairdner 's article nearly 20 years earlier seemed to have made no significant impression on clinical practice . |
| 13 | She seemed to have made a rapid improvement in health since I last saw her . |
| 14 | The strange situation seemed to have made Joe go mad . |
| 15 | Donaldson side-stepped to avoid two solicitors in conversation , youngish men who seemed to have made a conscious effort to propel themselves into a facsimile of late middle-age . |
| 16 | He seemed to have made up his mind in advance that he could reveal a certain amount of information about the past rather than the present . |
| 17 | Marcus seemed to have made up his mind . |
| 18 | And she seemed to have made Connon a bearable kind of wife . |
| 19 | He ought to have been over the moon at her suggestion that she leave him , but instead it seemed to have made him angry . |
| 20 | He was always one for the girls and as soon as he was a bit older , instead of the dogs he always seemed to have besotted females hanging round him . |
| 21 | He was also still considerably lighter , although as he rolled his sleeves right up to the top of his arms , Ellie for the first time was aware of the amount of muscle he seemed to have gained . |
| 22 | Those of you who attended this year 's day given by seemed to have gained a lot from it , so what else would you like ? |
| 23 | The steam seemed to have cleared a little and Lucien could see that Walterkin sat up straight against the far wall , his knees raised , his hands dangling between them . |
| 24 | No one seemed to have realized that Charles would need an income when he came of age . |
| 25 | Speer had served every day of his twenty-year sentence — from the age of forty to sixty — and seemed to have emerged unscathed . |
| 26 | A way forward seemed to have emerged some decades ago with the school of " facet analysis " developed from the work of Dr S. R. Ranganathan , whose revolutionary Colon Classification is widely in use throughout India . |
| 27 | Years of giving his best and then some more took their toll on Mike , who seemed to have staggered away from international rugby after the World Cup final . |
| 28 | I refused to face the prospect of his return yet , since I seemed to have faced quite enough for one afternoon . |
| 29 | Many people heard that but only Cecilia seemed to have heard that first single clang as Ernest , her brother , in freeing the rope from the cleat , gave it a tug which caused the bell to spring upwards and fall again . |
| 30 | None of the beetles seemed to have heard her . |