Example sentences of "so that [pers pn] seem [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In more recent times , Luciano Berio has used the same technique in his Sinfonia , Labirintus H , and electronic works , so that we seem to be hearing different music — symphonic , jazz , military , vocal , etc. — as if radios were tuned to different stations and the music merging , conflicting , and changing .
2 Three rows of tiny figures circled a Navaho basket , holding hands forever in the weave ; black squares for heads , so that they seemed to be facing inward to preserve the sanctity of the dance .
3 Grey stone walls rose about them , and winged roofs surfaced with rose-red tiles caught the sun so that they seemed to be on fire .
4 Positioning the moss at the bottom of the picture , push the wild flower stalks into the moss so that they seem to be growing naturally .
5 Weirdly , the step turned into a kind of floating movement , so that she seemed to be somehow poised in the air for an instant .
6 Only centimetres from his eyes and mouth , the hydra blurred and soaked up his voice so that he seemed to be shouting underwater .
7 The fog continued to enclose them in their own world for the whole of the next day , deadening all sound outside so that it seemed as if everything was hushed and waiting .
8 It was the same at the funeral , they were all so quiet , the four men who brought in the coffin wore thick soft-soled shoes so as not to make a noise , nothing must interrupt so that it seemed like a silent film unreeling to the sound of psalms .
9 So that it seem to me that we have to take that into account in terms of how we are approaching our struggle .
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