Example sentences of "seemed to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while now the man they call the greatest living actor has seemed to be coasting . |
| 2 | From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . |
| 3 | Jenna tried to ignore him too , although whenever he was near the air seemed to be crackling between them . |
| 4 | Mother had seemed to be undergoing a complete personality change , seeking danger and excitement like a reckless teenager ! |
| 5 | Earlier in the day Mr Yeltsin had seemed to be inching toward compromise with his critics . |
| 6 | When everything had seemed to be sorting itself out , when the way ahead seemed , for the first time in ages , to be solid under her feet , Marie felt the path crumbling away in front of her . |
| 7 | He was vaguely surprised that what sense of loss he did have seemed to be connected in some way with Cyprus . |
| 8 | Whether strictly order twenty eight , er order sixty , rule twenty eight for erm applies in this case is not amount entirely clear to me because the obligation to lodge a bill of taxation under rule twenty nine provides that he must begin proceedings for the taxation either within three months after the judgement direction or order of the terminations enter sides are otherwise perfected , and that is presently on it 's face which seemed to be debited May of nineteen ninety three and er accordingly that is right , it 's not in fact been any failure to comply with order tw order sixty two , rule twenty nine , one , and that has n't been disregarded , it 's not entirely clear to me that erm there is any matter come from paragraph sub paragraph A of rule twenty eight , four , it may already require , still nevertheless erm fall within paragraph B of rule fo , erm there has in fact been a delay in lodging the bill of costs for taxation , the delay being really and truly , the delay in having the order of Mr Justice perfected and it seems to me that although in chasing matters generally speaking it is the court will itself draw the order , nevertheless where er it seems to be clearly in this case would contemplate it that counsel would sign a minute erm that counsel do sign a minute and that minute has been signed having forwarded by the defendants solicitors to the defendants solicitors seems to me it must be the case that erm the obligation to , as it were , forward that minute to the court , it is an obligation which would lie upon the plaintiffs solicitors and it maybe said that erm there has been delay and erm on the best it should be lodged with the court sealed , er shortly after it was received and that therefore on that footing there has been delay lodging the bill of costs for concession , er Mr , doctor does n't seemed to be take any point in relation to that er because it 's not in his interest to do so , it seems to be that he does have to say if it has been delayed , with an order of twenty eight rule four that 's a rule , rule , rule twenty eight er four if he is to have interest disbarred and er Mr er he 'll apparently have the matter of read before the taxing master , it seems that the taxing master did not chew any sympathy with that er suggestion , that er there was in fact no breach of the requirement rule twenty , four , Mr he said , very probably , that erm , look on text upon it , he really is concerned to erm have this case dealt with as you put it on the merits , it seems to me it 's in the interest of all parties that erm I should deal with the case on merits have on the assumption erm that er , that that was lodged properly I think , I ca I , a matter of which found within rule twenty eight , four and that the taxing officer give our interest under that rule . |
| 9 | The magistrates heard that he had seemed to be drunk when the police stopped him . |
| 10 | At the start of the year , it had seemed to be regaining influence . |
| 11 | In universities , educational technologists have sometimes seemed to be suggesting that a mixture of cinema , television and self-instructional systems could make possible economies in the teacher-student ratio . |
| 12 | His smiles , his glances , his gentle intimacies … somehow they had all seemed to be pointing in that direction . |
| 13 | His desire to be gone had been so strong — the desire for movement — that he 'd seemed to be leaning into the wind . |
| 14 | In rejecting the " fallacy of objectivity " in stylistics , we may have seemed to be labouring the obvious . |
| 15 | Her whole being seemed to be pervaded by a dreamy languor , a torpid drowsiness , which was barely disturbed as his hand closed over her wrist . |
| 16 | The night had turned rough and the rattle from the windows had seemed to be emphasised by the silence during supper . |
| 17 | By the way the lot of seemed to be played in Hertfordshire these days , and one of the great days is at Harpenden and that 's on September the first on Sunday , when they have their annual single-wicket competition , and that 's a great local event and it 's bound to encourage all the young cricketers in the neighbourhood , they 're trying to make up for the lack of cricket in schools , so well done Harpenden and that is on Sunday next , er , er , first of September and I 'll give you the time in a minute if I can find it , when it is , it does n't say , but it 's probably all day at the Harpenden club , well done Harpenden encouraging young people to play cricket , Sunday first September . |
| 18 | Her heart sank ; she had been so intent on trying to score off him that she had n't given a thought to what her careless words could do to the understanding that had seemed to be developing between them . |
| 19 | She dearly loved the twins , but over the last two days , since they 'd returned to Liz and Owen 's apartment , her cousin 's ancient washing-machine had seemed to be going non-stop ! |
| 20 | Even during their teasing exchange his eyes had seemed to be giving another message , trailing over her lips and , briefly , to the V of her blouse . |
| 21 | Come that way er like , they do n't seemed to be giving it to 'em , and it was nothing to do with them , they bought it and , and they would have a search done as the reason when you buy houses are n't there ? |
| 22 | He had seemed to be sulking . |
| 23 | Every villager who had a mule seemed to be making his way that day to the beach north of Famagusta , by Salamis . |
| 24 | The band was tight , but everyone else had seemed to be making it up as they went along . |
| 25 | By the evening of I5 May the immediate emergency which had seemed to be threatening 5 Corps with the approach of an estimated 600,000 Germans and Croats from the south was over . |
| 26 | Things had seemed to be opening up . |
| 27 | As first to go in the nine-horse jump-off , Halliday had seemed to be handicapped by the draw . |
| 28 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 29 | At the fact that he had seemed to be regretting nothing ? |