Example sentences of "now [pers pn] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been a thing of firm , clear outlines ; now I seemed to splay out in all directions and to have assumed a shape , thanks to undue accretions of flesh , which bore no relation to the person I believed to exist within it . |
| 2 | ‘ You come all this way and now you seem to have lost interest . |
| 3 | Now you have castles grim towering to heaven ; again , a storm-beat wall of cliff , the mist surgings beneath imitating the motions of the waves of ocean ; now you seem to get a peep of fairyland , and think you see the dwellers in a city of light : again , the veil seems as if hiding a very abode of woes , dark places of gloom . |
| 4 | Now you seem to be in every place at once . |
| 5 | Now you seem to be laying a great deal of stress on the introduction of minimum standards , what , what 's the point behind that and what does it mean ? |
| 6 | And now she seemed to be planning a new use for those skills as I watched her gaze , fixed on Boy , or shifting from O to Boy . |
| 7 | She had disdained the smaller waves in the shelter of the islands , but now she seemed to tremble as her hull soaked up the ponderous force of the ocean . |
| 8 | He remembered a time when Jane had feared a duel as much as he , but now she seemed more eager to protect her money than Lord John 's life . |
| 9 | Now she seems to have little pain , and little hunger , although she takes what the boy gives her , and today , we have improved upon that . |
| 10 | We favoured Eva or Dieter at first ; but now we seem to have settled on Brigitta or Eduard . |
| 11 | It was held in with the present public excluded but now we seem to have a completely different situation . |
| 12 | Last year we had an irritating habit of losing ; now we seem to be in a nasty spell of drawing matches . |
| 13 | I mean we 've got the Chancellor saying we 're going into recession , and now , now we seem to have some good news . |
| 14 | By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops . |
| 15 | Now they seem impossibly self-indulgent and prolix . |
| 16 | Hurricanes : we never used to have them ; now they seem to be a regular meteorological fixture . |
| 17 | Now they seem to lose all interest . |
| 18 | ‘ It used to be salted char that was popular — I 'm told that Henry VIII ordered it in barrelfuls — and then there were char pies — some of them three or four stone in weight : now they seem to want it potted in little jars . |
| 19 | Other products are bought on the commodity exchanges , like to a large extent tea cocoa and a few other things like Rowntrees buying cocoa from Ghana but now they seem to buy it anywhere that they can get it cheaply . |
| 20 | ‘ Now they seem to be taking the same supine approach to the milk and potato marketing boards , where the Government is in the process of selling out the interests of farmers . |
| 21 | Now it seemed to come and go on the wind . |
| 22 | But now it seemed as natural as the confluence of two rivers and needed no words at all . |
| 23 | Now it seemed that today would be the same . |
| 24 | Fear often played tricks with my perception and now it seemed as if I was losing my grip of reality . |
| 25 | Now it seemed to have difficulty in moving at all . |
| 26 | Now it seemed to us that freedom from disease was more likely related to the weak growth of the trees in the forest . |
| 27 | Now it seemed like a relief to be talking , a novelty , a test of wit . |
| 28 | This morning she had been told that she was ill-mannered ; now it seemed she was not fit to be a lady ! |
| 29 | I had regarded the English language almost as my own private possession , something which was mine by right , and now it seemed that I was going to have to fight to hang on to it , as I was having to fight for everything else . |
| 30 | They had met just three months ago , yet now it seemed that the whole of her life had been crammed into those few fleeting weeks ; as if her living had had no meaning before they met and her future would have no substance if ever he left her . |