Example sentences of "he seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a slow sensuous laziness to his movements contradicted by the dangerously hard angles of his face , the flashing darkness of his eyes which no matter how covertly she looked at him seemed to be gazing at her . |
| 2 | The noises had become louder , the lights were brighter and sharper , and the people around him seemed to be turning into over-expansive parodies of their true selves . |
| 3 | The SS man who had told me to find him seemed to be particularly irritated by this information . |
| 4 | But the odd tension which had been nagging at him seemed to be increasing . |
| 5 | Going along with him seemed to be the best way of getting rid of him . |
| 6 | And that to him seems to be the answer to a problem which at sometime or another must have exercised most of use , and which he explains in the pamphlet which accompanies the display ; ‘ The art gallery , that supposed refuge and den of tranquility , I find a troubled place . |
| 7 | Voronov-Vaux himself wore a casque that covered his whole head , making him seem to be a human lizard with great red eyes . |
| 8 | As always , he seemed to be apologizing for everything he said or did . |
| 9 | Of the original concept , only weatherman Francis Wilson survives and even he seemed to be making conscious efforts not to call clouds ‘ white , fluffy bits ’ , as has been his trick . |
| 10 | He seemed to be a lot more cheerful and appeared to have recovered from his bout of depression of the previous evening . |
| 11 | He had a clean , bare style ; when writing he seemed to be able to slip the burden of his personality as he could never do face to face . |
| 12 | He seemed to be counting and when he had finished he turned and reacted as Wexford had expected he would . |
| 13 | He seemed to be having difficulty in controlling the muscles which worked in his forehead and at the corners of his mouth . |
| 14 | He seemed to be saying it as much to convince himself as to convince all the rest . |
| 15 | He seemed to be loosening up , only tensing slightly when he noticed the no smoking sign again . |
| 16 | He seemed to be freezing , in fact . |
| 17 | But Simon 's reaction was to throw back his head and howl with delight : he seemed to be genuinely amused . |
| 18 | He seemed to be in a really good mood . |
| 19 | He seemed to be in a uniform of some sort , a slightly unconventional get-up but unmistakably an officer . |
| 20 | He seemed to be asleep . |
| 21 | He seemed to be smiling and then he was gone . |
| 22 | But back in the mid-Eighties he seemed to be taking his role a little too seriously . |
| 23 | But on screen too , he seemed to be deliberately absenting himself , choosing to play only cameo roles in Angel Heart and The Untouchables . |
| 24 | Only Ashley House had given Dickinson no training problems , but , good chaser as he was , he seemed to be a little out of his depth here . |
| 25 | He seemed to be waiting for me to react , rather as if he 'd floated a fly in front of a fish . |
| 26 | Brundle , who had risen briefly to third place during the tyre stops , was again completely out of luck and , like Johnny Herbert , was forced to retire by a collision in which he seemed to be the innocent party . |
| 27 | It was Wharton 's 14th win in 15 fights — the other bout ended in a draw — but he seemed to be allowing the fight to slip away from him through uncharacteristic casualness in the fifth and sixth rounds . |
| 28 | Incidentally , he seemed to be going long in avocados . |
| 29 | He seemed to be enjoying himself . |
| 30 | To her , at least , he seemed to be a part of the gaiety , having a wonderful time . |