Example sentences of "that [pers pn] seem [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 2 | This went smoothly and is a great improvement but in order to create the compressed drive and double the hard disk capacity the SuperStor program took my hard disk ( drive C : ) and seemed to create a compressed drive D : it then swaps drive D and drive C so that the compressed drive is now C : The result is that I seem to be locked out of my old drive D in Rom which has one or two useful bits on — like a hardware check program . |
| 3 | I 've had three letters now , one from David , one from you and one from Beeston all assuming that I seem to be dealing with this subject , erm it 's a Beeston commitment |
| 4 | I 'm sure glad I 've got it 's just that I seem to be . |
| 5 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 6 | The therapist pointed out to Liz that she seemed to be trying to get away from both the shop and the flat , and Liz then talked about her life with her boyfriend and that she felt she needed to start afresh . |
| 7 | He was somewhat consoled to find that she seemed to be genuinely interested . |
| 8 | Weirdly , the step turned into a kind of floating movement , so that she seemed to be somehow poised in the air for an instant . |
| 9 | Her gaze was dark , and hinted at some impossibly deep sense of pain ; and for a moment Lucy felt a certain regret , if not shame , at the way that she seemed to be ready to manipulate any situation for whatever advantage she could get . |
| 10 | Aunt Emily said , ‘ If you read it , dear child , it will take away your fear , ’ and Alexandra , stubbornly remembering Michael Swinton 's saying that she seemed to be working out her own salvation and feeling that the decision to read the journal must be part of that working out , shook her head and sent her needle stabbing in and out of the canvas . |
| 11 | It was impossible to know what was going on in her mind , but he was thankful that she seemed in no way agitated . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm happy that she seems to be leading a normal life and we want to keep it that way . ’ |
| 13 | There is also the consideration that she seems to be flirting with the possibility of committing herself to re-entering mainstream education locally . |
| 14 | She asked after you and was pleased when I told her how well your business was doing and that you seemed in good spirits since she said she had been anxious for you . |
| 15 | Once you 've got that fourth equation in from all this lot adds up to the total , and that 's the one that you seem to be forgetting , that 's the one you 've got to try and remember . |
| 16 | ‘ Only that you seem to be the darling of the tabloids , ’ she muttered . |
| 17 | And while we 're at the police station I suggest that you have a word with someone there about the fact that you seem to be attracting some unwelcome attention . |
| 18 | It is n't difficult Sid it 's just that you seem to , you want a torch that comes this way to see how you |
| 19 | It was only by being constantly on the scene , as a neutral , that we seemed to me to move at all . |
| 20 | The best that we seem to be able to say is that biological and psychological categories have tended to contain only a very small minority of offenders ( as well as a significant proportion of non-offenders ) , while sociological categories have contained a large majority of non-offenders ( and by no means all offenders ) . |
| 21 | ONCE UPON A TIME the Universities had representatives in parliament ; it is only now through the Conference of University Convocations and Graduate Associations ( CUCGA , a national body in which Salford has a high profile , that works to protect and enhance higher education ) that we seem to be getting some clout back . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Now that we seem to be approaching , by way of plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading , some sort of general theory of earth history acceptable to the physicists , it is perhaps unwise to continue to hypothesise in this way . |
| 24 | Yeah , er well put it under any other business Erm nothing more about that one other to say that we seem to be on course for finishing er about the zero mark which is what we 're targetting . |
| 25 | Many were so hard that they seemed to be made of solid wood while others shattered like eggshells , but were virtually empty . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 29 | Then , exasperated by her own confusion , and the fact that they seemed to be going round in circles , Ellie demanded , ‘ Feargal , just tell me what it is you want to know — what , in fact , we 're supposed to be talking about ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ 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 … ’ |