Example sentences of "seem to be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , only a few days ago , Labour 's campaign seemed to be swinging to victory . |
| 2 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 3 | It seemed to be calling to them and Carrie thought of fairy tales she had read — you looked back at something behind you and were caught in its spell ! |
| 4 | No Roman Catholic movement of the left had appeared to help Rome in its political struggles at a time when the suffrage was spreading ; in spite of a few ‘ Christian socialists ’ , Roman Catholicism still seemed to be tied to social and political conservatism . |
| 5 | It seemed to be tied to his neck . |
| 6 | On the landing , looking out over the High Street , Aziz , wearing new brown overalls bought for him by the headmaster , seemed to be waving to his friend . |
| 7 | The obvious thing seemed to be to retire to bed ; both women felt crushing exhaustion . |
| 8 | Suddenly , even the sound of his voice seemed to be getting to her . |
| 9 | The squire 's white velvet purse had weighed him down , and though he had slipped it out of his jerkin and felt it sink past his feet , coins still seemed to be clinging to his armpit . |
| 10 | One patient had disease that seemed to be confirmed to the proximal small bowel . |
| 11 | The wood seemed to be beckoning to her , but she resisted the temptation . |
| 12 | She seemed to be reading to them , while they listened with close attention . |
| 13 | Gloucester seemed to be coasting to an easy 2 points . |
| 14 | The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , who has left the Chamber , seemed to be aspiring to be the next Home Secretary , but he appears to have forgotten that there is a land frontier between the United Kingdom and another nation . |
| 15 | ‘ Sixteen coffees , ’ she announced in the cool voice that they seemed to be using to each other , ‘ followed by — er — ’ Consulting her list , she continued , ‘ Six rounds of toast , five boiled eggs with soldiers … ’ |
| 16 | She hardly seemed to be listening to what he was saying . |
| 17 | Charles seemed to be listening to the brilliant quintet banging out its jazz . |
| 18 | She glanced at David and wryly saw that he seemed to be listening to this conversation with great interest . |
| 19 | ‘ The army will concentrate on Quatre Bras , ’ the Duke of Wellington seemed to be speaking to himself as though he groped towards a solution of the problem Napoleon posed , ‘ but we sha n't stop him there , and if so , ’ Wellington 's gaze flicked across the map , then settled , ‘ I must fight him , ’ he paused again to lean over the map for a few final seconds , ‘ here . ’ |
| 20 | Topaz seemed to be speaking to herself . |
| 21 | They seemed to be pandering to the silliest stereotypes . |
| 22 | just as cliché haunted Henry 's daily journey to the train , his socks from Marks and Spencers ' , his regular nightly bedtime , his fondness for a cup of tea at ten thirty in the evening , just as he seemed to be destined to be as remorselessly English as the plane trees in the street outside or the homecoming commuters clacking through the twilight towards the village , so his one existential act ( had n't someone called it that ? ) seemed destined for suburban predictability . |
| 23 | The matron moved towards Elinor 's bed on legs that seemed to be joined to her feet without ankles : she did not walk so much as stomp . |
| 24 | But again Morse 's mind seemed to be tuned to another wave-length . |
| 25 | In the hollow below , Bigwig seemed to be drawing to a close . |
| 26 | We found some discrepancies between care of the elderly and of younger people under the care programme approach , which seemed to be related to different modes of organizing service delivery . |
| 27 | This effect was not easily predictable , but seemed to be related to pedestrian trip routes , and the network of pedestrian flows in the city centre . |
| 28 | Most respondents showed concern at the emphasis which seemed to be given to world faiths other than Christianity . |
| 29 | Although , in referring to the possibility that serfdom might " abolish itself from below " , the tsar seemed to be responding to the rural disturbances which had resulted from Nicholas 's militia creations , in all probability he simply lifted the phrase from a Third Department report of 1839 whose purpose , though reformist , had hardly been the complete transformation of government policy . |
| 30 | Strange things seemed to be happening to her voice , and her words came in a sort of confused mumble . |