Example sentences of "[pron] seem [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No other flowers were in the garden , yet I seemed to smell the strong scent of nicotiana . |
| 2 | Yet I seemed to hear the distant cheers , as each Province selected its king and the champions of Ulster , Leinster , Connaught and Munster set out for Tara and the kingship trials . |
| 3 | We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance . |
| 4 | I seem to remember the Labour Party being dragged down what proved to be a very long dark road indeed by the trade unions . |
| 5 | I seem to remember the other evening — ’ |
| 6 | As for Miss Kenton , I seem to remember the mounting tension of those days having a noticeable effect upon her . |
| 7 | I seem to hear the stuck pig shriek |
| 8 | ‘ I seem to expect the whole happiness and sweetness to come from you ’ , he wrote as he warned Helen that she should find a real need for patience with him . |
| 9 | At 11 o'clock de Castelnau , by now in receipt of further intelligence which seemed to presage the total collapse of the defence on the Right Bank , was back in Joffre 's office . |
| 10 | The room was gloomy , filled with massive , mahogany furniture and pervaded by a musty smell which seemed to characterise the whole house . |
| 11 | When our love was young , we would exchange presents — small tokens , often meaningless in themselves , but which seemed to enclose the very essence of their donor . |
| 12 | During the 1970s there was a China boom in Japan which seemed to evoke the old image of China as a source of civilization and ideas . |
| 13 | The upper half of the front door was a stained glass window which seemed to emphasize the cloistered atmosphere of the deserted road . |
| 14 | THROUGHOUT the mid-1980s a fierce battle raged for control of Daimler-Benz , the luxury-car maker which seemed to epitomise the industrial prowess of a resurgent West Germany . |
| 15 | More significantly , perhaps , he revealed to Edward that there was much opposition in Normandy to the fiscal oppression of the Valois administration and the centralizing policies which seemed to threaten the provincial liberties of the duchy . |
| 16 | Delia Marr graphically demonstrates her sincere affection for dogs of all kinds through paintings which seem to express the very soul of her subjects |
| 17 | The fresco fragments at Knossos which seem to show the Tripartite Shrine at the centre of the Knossos Labyrinth have rows of sacral horns along the cornices and two pairs of sacral horns inside each cella . |
| 18 | Now that we have looked at Wharram Percy deserted village and seen something of the 30-year long excavations there , we should look at other studies and excavations on village sites which seem to suggest the same developments implied at Wharram Percy . |
| 19 | An early temple in Sicily had a huge terracotta Gorgon-mask in the gable-centre ; and groups of fighting animals , which seem to have the same function , adorn other early pediments . |
| 20 | We must take into account that evidence , as well as the other evidence , which seems to point the other way but has not been statistically upheld and has never been put before us in any form that we could check or examine . |
| 21 | From a more conventional approach which encompasses land use , maps of soil erosion , and the designation of technically feasible conservation measures which can be accepted within the constraints operating upon land-users — a difficult enough task in itself — an expansion is suggested to the present programme which seems to involve the political economy of the whole world in every instance of soil erosion . |
| 22 | I have seen many other companies working the same sort of processes , and I have yet to find one which seems to have the final solution . |
| 23 | This geometric model ( a geometrically constructed system which seems to have the same properties as the Lorenz equations though the connection depends on several global properties of the flow which have not yet been proved ) has an attracting set , for a range of parameter values , which is a strange attractor , but which is a slightly different strange attractor at every parameter value in the range ( see below ) . |
| 24 | There is thus a gap between rapid acquisition of complex and highly abstract knowledge by individuals with very limited cognitive resources and the degenerate information , in the form of spoken language , which seems to provide the only source of information the child has to work on . |
| 25 | Blake repeats his earlier position , summoning the notion of equity between dischargers as a bargaining tactic to support his case , which seems to win the tacit approval of some of the directors present . |
| 26 | Policy-making in this area is deliberately pluralist , mopping up political energies , providing a reassuring appearance of controversy and popular influence , and sustaining a needs-orientated ideology which seems to indicate the social neutrality of state policy . |
| 27 | A lot of them seem to have the whole class |
| 28 | She was facing the window , but did not see me beyond its screen because she was staring at Matthew McIllvanney who seemed to fill the whole room with his malevolence . |
| 29 | Carson liked her because she seemed to display the ideal mix of warmth and distance that made a good neighbour . |
| 30 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |