Example sentences of "we seem to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far from all the problems being solved , we seemed to be not far from the beginning of the quest . |
| 2 | And yet despite all this the pounds were creeping up on us and we seemed to be fighting a losing battle . |
| 3 | We seemed to be travelling down a sort of miniature , pinkish Channel Tunnel . |
| 4 | Our elder daughter , a budding journalist , had her birthday a few days after Easter Day , so we seemed to be stuffed with Simnel cake and birthday cake and chocolate eggs . |
| 5 | The car was surrounded by a circle of robed figures : we seemed to be in the middle of some whirling ballet . |
| 6 | At times we seemed to be on an unavoidable collision course with menacing sharp edged rocks , only to be swept clear by the current at the last minute . |
| 7 | It was extraordinary , but suddenly we seemed to be on quite different terms . |
| 8 | We seemed to be peeing more than we could possibly have drunk . |
| 9 | But first there was the other thing , which we seemed to be glossing over and which could n't be glossed over . |
| 10 | We seemed to be running against each other in some complex obstacle race . |
| 11 | This in an ordinary way would not have mattered , but it mattered in this particular case and mattered quite fatally , because at various stages of the discussion , when we seemed to be reaching an agreement , I pressed Mr Smith about whether there was any likelihood , whatever the agreement was , that it would be acceptable to the entire population of Rhodesia , which the British government had laid down as a precondition . |
| 12 | And I thought it was because we seemed to be so much on the same wavelength . |
| 13 | He 'd come round and it had been so nice , and we seemed to be so comfortable with each other , not just in bed you know , and it did n't occur to me we would n't do things together and see each other . |
| 14 | And as we seemed to be rather overweighted with gentlemen I have also invited Ingrid — it is her first time in a major role and the enchanting Miss Grimsilk . ’ |
| 15 | Cos when I , I used to take Tim , it used to be very safe then , the only danger we seemed to be in in those days was catching cold . |
| 16 | Right now , we seem to be ready to cripple lives and curb them — creating houses we shall regret and preferring town cramming to town planning . |
| 17 | ‘ We seem to be in the middle of something . |
| 18 | We seem to be able to communicate better with a horse if no one else is around . |
| 19 | Alter more than 10 years of ‘ debate ’ we seem to be little better off than before — indeed the lack of motivation is , if anything , more acute than ever . |
| 20 | ‘ We seem to be between Scylla and Charybdis , on this one . ’ |
| 21 | In general , we seem to be pleased with the way it goes about its work , and many like to feel that we can contribute ideas as well as money . |
| 22 | We seem to be unaware of our true essence , unable to express that essence authentically , and therefore unable to embody who we really are in the sight of others . |
| 23 | We seem to be failing in producing the kind of teacher who is committed to national service today . |
| 24 | However , since so few children attended some of these types of school , d is often calculated from proportions at the extremes of the scale ; if we rank the class exclusivity of schools on the basis of the magnitude of the d s , we seem to be told that the secondary moderns were the most selective , followed by the grammar schools . |
| 25 | In the UK we seem to be lagging well behind the USA in the construction of databases on hazardous sites and especially hazard events such as those involving toxic releases . |
| 26 | Often , we seem to be spoiled for choice and hampered , even paralysed , by our fear of the unknown . |
| 27 | The doctor 's trying some different medication , and we seem to be doing quite well with it at the moment . ’ |
| 28 | Where loving and intimate relationships are concerned , we seem to be more strongly influenced by familial blueprints and unconscious preoccupations than by other factors . |
| 29 | We seem to be forever ‘ fighting the flab ’ , going on crash diets , and trying to cut calories . |
| 30 | If the millions of pounds raised annually in this country for these people via television , telethon , etc. are spent in such a manner , this would surely see the start of a reversal of the present path on the dead-end road we seem to be following . |