Example sentences of "seem have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In schools where there was no committee , librarians seemed to have reverted to traditional allegiances ( e.g. with the English department ) and were " going it alone " as before , though undoubtedly in a rather more fertile and responsive climate , and in some cases with a slightly enhanced allocation of free periods . |
| 2 | His manner seemed to have reverted to normal . |
| 3 | It seemed to have swollen in her chest , huge and hot , and its painful drumming shook her frail body as if to burst it apart . |
| 4 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 5 | The North Sea crossing seemed to have disagreed with her , and the journey in the coach to Brussels had not improved her nausea . |
| 6 | And although other people were certainly present they seemed to have faded to some other level of reality , very far removed from herself and this bulky , swarthy man who was letting her know , without a word , not only that he had her , but that should he now refuse to open the trap and let her in she would plead with him to do so . |
| 7 | The tan seemed to have faded since last night . |
| 8 | With a shock Juliet realised that her aspirations there seemed to have faded in the light of her latest discovery . |
| 9 | I seemed to have stumbled into a painting by Hogarth . |
| 10 | ‘ Although it seemed natural to expect that some word match scores should be good enough that they could be considered correct , thereby eliminating attempts to find alternatives to them , in fact all attempts to implement such an intuition seemed to have led to at best indifferent results and usually to positive degradation . |
| 11 | Virginia 's heart seemed to have plummeted into her stomach . |
| 12 | He reached for his handkerchief and dabbed his forehead again — a cold , clammy sweat that only seemed to have surfaced in the last half an hour . |
| 13 | There was no way that it could be admired or praised , but Eve Malone seemed to have risen above this . |
| 14 | The date , and the exiled place of composition of its authors , suggests tellingly that the situation with which it attempts to deal is the phenomenon of fascism which seemed to have stopped in its tracks the long march of the progress of reason , and its liberating enlightenment ideals , of which Marxism was the fullest political development . |
| 15 | Even her heart seemed to have stopped in mid-beat in her breast . |
| 16 | The threads of connection binding the people into a fabric seemed to have thinned to invisibility , the little steadings turned in on themselves like snails in a drought . |
| 17 | The Melanisms seemed to have retreated into their dark corners again , but Fenella had the feeling that they were simply mustering their strength again ; they had been baulked of their prey and they had retired . |
| 18 | The woman she seemed to have become over the course of a single weekend — just forty-eight hours — bore no resemblance to the vague mental picture she had always , possibly complacently , had of herself . |
| 19 | During a lull , when for once nothing seemed to have fallen under the machine , she tried to catch her attention . |
| 20 | A shadow seemed to have fallen over them , perhaps a premonition that they would never see each other again , and they stared at each other as though trying to commit each other 's features to memory . |
| 21 | An uneasy tension seemed to have fallen between them again , as if the hot , searing flash of passion inside the cave had been a product of their environment , and not of their own feelings for each other . |
| 22 | There was such a deep gulf between the stern , dutiful world of my aunt 's upbringing and my schooldays , and the kind of lotus-land I seemed to have fallen into during the last year , that I had sometimes felt , when I bathed my baby or sat giggling in the park with Sophie , that I was taking part , not in real life , but in some wildly unrelated dream . |
| 23 | She spoke in this way until the girl 's hand went limp and she seemed to have fallen into a doze . |
| 24 | Spokesman Brian Adams explained : ‘ The historical society is one of the oldest clubs at Queen 's but for a long time it seemed to have fallen into a plodding routine . |
| 25 | A degree of comprehension seemed to have crept into his frozen expression . |
| 26 | Age and this way of life seemed to have crept upon her unawares , she had not questioned any of it , scarcely looked back . |
| 27 | She seemed to have gone through a character change . |
| 28 | Her ability to be cold and untouchable seemed to have gone as if it had never been . |
| 29 | His mind seemed to have gone into a paralysing panic . |
| 30 | Later , wandering further through the ruins , we noted that the process of creation seemed to have gone into reverse . |