Example sentences of "[noun pl] seem [to-vb] from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Once more Margaret Seymour-Strachey 's words seemed to come from the front of her head , and to be as contradictory as words usually are when they do n't represent what one is really thinking about .
2 You also notice that Sebadoh are n't afraid to improvise live and that they 're so prolific , perfectly-formed new songs seem to drop from the sky .
3 For much of the interwar period and for some years after 1945 , the judges seemed to withdraw from the conflict or , when asked to intervene , tended to adopt a neutral position .
4 In her more recent works , avalanches of everyday objects seem to fall from the sky .
5 Whether or not particular authors take industrialization to be the main engine of change , or whether they include other factors , such as urbanization and bureaucratization , three generally agreed themes seem to emerge from the writings of many sociologists of the family .
6 Brown entrails seemed to bulge from the walls , sprayed with pious mottos .
7 Now that the conquerors of Pyrrhus were involved in an apparently endless struggle with Carthage , the Romans seemed to recede from the horizon of the Greek intellectuals .
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