Example sentences of "seem [verb] [verb] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She seemed to have jumped up from nowhere . |
| 3 | They seemed to have landed away from the red paralysis , but as he looked around he could see the castle being encroached upon from all directions by the strange weed . |
| 4 | The remaining 10 patients ( 14% ) seemed to have suffered primarily from non-hepatic disease ( carcinomatosis ( 4 ) , congestive cardiac failure ( 1 ) , cholelithiasis ( 2 ) , and septicaemia ( 3 ) ) . |
| 5 | Now one of their own was implicated in alleged rituals that seemed to have sprung directly from a determined searching for satanism and rituals adopted by extremist Christian groups . |
| 6 | His hope had been that she might have moved on before the word got around , no chance for gossip and so no awkwardness , but his sense of firm control in that area seemed to have slipped away from him . |
| 7 | ‘ When did you make contact ? ’ asked old Mr pugh , who seemed to have recovered completely from the compost . |
| 8 | Experienced Temple Fortune locals seem to prefer to peer away from the posters at the television set perched atop the soft drinks cooler . |
| 9 | John 's problems seem to have arisen mainly from his own nature , the other side of the very qualities that brought him success . |
| 10 | With their emphasis on a world of forest spirits and magical dominations , they seem to have differed little from the experiences and practices of mainland Northern Europe . |
| 11 | There followed a rather more conventional period where his activities seem to have differed little from the other young gentlemen of his day ; he studied scientific works on medicine and the natural sciences and pursued a particular interest in taking thermometer readings under varying conditions , including some from the craters of Italian volcanoes . |
| 12 | They seem to have taken over from the large black dogs with glowing red eyes to be found in most local folklore collections . |
| 13 | The perceptions of the functioning of the project in its early years seem to have varied considerably from one member to another , but a clear and shared view has developed since then . |
| 14 | Effortless transfer : Sir Patrick , who joined the BP board shortly after he retired from the foreign service in 1991 , seems to have transferred effortlessly from Whitehall to business life . |
| 15 | Whether El Cid acted in a position of arbiter , as Ferdinand had intended , is not known ; he seems to have stepped aside from the almost continuous wrangling of the brothers . |
| 16 | Although it was the king , not the chief lord of the fee , who issued the licences , he seems to have done so from the start — and certainly after 1292 — only with the assent of the chief lords . |
| 17 | In such conditions , a brown forest soil seems to have developed widely from late glacial times through to the Bronze Age . |
| 18 | ‘ It is a matter for regret that she seems to have turned away from serious current affairs interviews , ’ says a founding executive of Channel 4 News . |
| 19 | Whatever the truth of it , by the end of the year Modigliani seems to have turned away from the brawling and tension . |
| 20 | The new pseudo-science of ‘ counselling ’ , which seems to have taken over from the greater absurdity of analysis , may not be as destructive as its predecessor but it , too , has many of the characteristics of an enclosed cult like the Plymouth Brethren or the Moonies . |
| 21 | This is another of those modern Western diseases that seems to have mushroomed up from nowhere over the past fifty years . |
| 22 | Edmund ( John Kazek ) is a ludicrous , ranting , kilted boor who seems to have strayed in from the Scottish play . |
| 23 | The rise in the popularity of herbs as medicinal remedies is less obvious but it seems to have come partly from a general dissatisfaction with synthesized drugs , as well as plastics , artificials and chemicals — " manufactured " articles of all kinds , which are being rejected in favour of substances naturally grown and formed by hand into the artifact required . |
| 24 | And for the mass of the petty bourgeoisie , which had from the beginning provided a backbone of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the period when , materially , the Third Reich turned to unmitigated disaster only seems to have set in from 1942 onwards . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've now had two further years when we do n't seem to have gone on from that . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , he does n't seem to have learnt much from it , does he ? ’ chuckled Dexter . |
| 27 | The short answer is that people 's motives for using media do not seem to have changed much from 1945 to 1990 — whether to combat loneliness , find out what was going on or just relax . |