Example sentences of "he seem have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon .
2 He seemed to have sat for hours mulling over people 's recollections of events on Friday .
3 He seemed to have come to terms with the end of his career but the fact he never spoke about his feelings was always a worry . ’
4 He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark .
5 He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence .
6 He seemed to have forgotten about only letting me loose on water .
7 She wanted to forget all about this man beside her , just as he seemed to have forgotten about her .
8 He seemed to have shrunk inside his clothes .
9 Anthony had once seemed to want her badly , but that had hardly lasted even through their honeymoon , and he seemed to have seized on any excuse since Flavia 's death to avoid sharing her bed .
10 Kate gave him a suspicious look , but he seemed to have recovered from the rage she 'd been fairly sure he 'd been trying to keep under control before she left the room .
11 After this he seems to have retired for a time to his Scottish estates .
12 But he seems to have withdrawn from his earlier commitment to critical theory and become increasing involved in the philosophical basis of communicative action .
13 Patience is not what we associate with Pound , and from time to time he seems to have kicked over the traces ( at least once to be ticked off for it by Dorothy ) : yet we see all over again that the young Pound was well content with Edwardian England , was hopeful of it and ready to abide by its rules in everything that mattered .
14 With some people this might be mere bravado , but when Wordsworth was on his way back to England he seems to have lingered in Paris far longer than was necessary , and possibly considered active participation in practical politics ( Prelude 1805 , x , 129 ff ) .
15 He seems to have taught for a while , but already politics called him , and with his father 's support he took ship for France .
16 It is also worth noting that after his death he seems to have remained as a hero in folk memory .
17 As a means of livelihood compatible with his politics , Doherty set up as a publisher , bookseller , and printer in Manchester from 1832 , and he seems to have remained in this business until his death .
18 He seems to have travelled in the Rhineland , and was in Paris in 1241 , when he commemorated the arrival of the relics of the crucifixion , and then in Angers , where he taught and disputed with local poets .
19 He seems to have moved to Hackney , Middlesex , and became involved with the school kept by Mrs Perwich in the house of his near relation Robert Perwich .
20 And he seems to have kept in work . ’
21 Taylor believes he must protect Gascoigne just at a time when he seems to have shaken off the horrific knee injury that has kept him out of football for 17 months .
22 , Antonio Fernandez ( d. 1659 ) , Marrano merchant , was probably born in Portugal , for in his youth he seems to have lived in Fundão .
23 From 1237 until 1245 he seems to have acted as one of the stewards of the king 's household , a post that he combined with the sheriffdom of Gloucestershire ( 1238–46 ) and more briefly with the justiciarship of the southern forests ( 1241–2 ) and the seneschalship of Gascony ( 1243 ) .
24 He seems to have got over the shock pretty quickly . ’
25 Generally he seems to have dealt with those who came to him with requests by saying that he would do something for them , and then repeating this promise whenever he had to , postponing action for as long as possible .
26 His connection with Mozart , which he seems to have exaggerated in later life , may have amounted to no more than that they were both Freemasons and involved with Schikaneder 's theatre company and that he played the role of a slave in The Magic Flute .
27 The association with Fahreddin Acemi of the only information in the Turkish sources about the activities of the early Muftis may well not be entirely coincidental , for in one very important respect he seems to have differed from his two predecessors in the traditional list , Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan , in that he appears not to have held a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , whereas Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan apparently both held the kadilik of Bursa at the same time as the Muftilik .
28 It must have pleased the powerful church of Canterbury , with which he seems to have wished to be on good terms , and been gratifyingly displeasing to that of London .
29 He seems to have taken at least nine apprentices , the last in November 1622 ; one , bound in 1610 , was John Shakespeare , son of a Warwick butcher .
30 The fact that the power of was not confined to the Mufti alone is of some importance in assessing the nature of the Muftilik in general and will therefore be dealt with in greater detail further on ; suffice it to say for the moment that Mustakimzade 's argument is disappointing in its lack of development and of positive evidence in support of it and that , in the terms in which it is stated and in view of the material he seems to have used in compiling his book , his argument might equally well apply to Molla Fenari .
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