Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had expected more censure , more blame , but instead Fen seemed to be taking everything upon himself . |
| 2 | You seemed to be taking it for granted , ’ she pointed out . |
| 3 | Lewis seemed to be taking it as a personal insult that the family had come to the Hebrides for their summer holiday . |
| 4 | The doctors seemed to be availing themselves of my immobility . |
| 5 | I did n't know whether my imagination was leading me astray when you seemed to be implying something like that . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Everybody at the hospital seemed to be accusing me of causing the injuries . |
| 7 | He seemed to be watching her like a hawk , waiting for some reaction . |
| 8 | Only now his charges seemed to be settling themselves into occupation , having forgotten the urgent purpose of their return to London . |
| 9 | The words coming from behind her sent Lindsey Blake whirling to face the speaker , a slim , dark-haired girl of about her own age , who seemed to be regarding her with some amusement . |
| 10 | seemed to be holding them from better place from the springs we could n't find are n't they ? |
| 11 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
| 12 | You seemed to be drawing me like a magnet , and there was Claudine , anyway . ’ |
| 13 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 14 | The policeman seemed to be treating him with far too much respect , Folly thought with irritation . |
| 15 | She let her lashes flutter down briefly to shut out the sight of Lucenzo 's smouldering eyes , which seemed to be mesmerising her into surrender . |
| 16 | She seemed to be suffering me in silence , as she suffered everyone and everything else . |
| 17 | Jess asked , though she 'd noticed the questions seemed to be driving him like a snail into his shell . |
| 18 | Even with his knapsack containing not only their sandwiches but his camera and painting materials , Fen seemed to be making nothing of it . |
| 19 | Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached . |
| 20 | His hold on her arm seemed to be doing nothing to him at all . |
| 21 | She seemed to be deciding something about the knitting in her lap . |
| 22 | It was also , in his view , unpardonable on grounds of principle , since by the autumn of 1940 Vichy seemed to be aligning itself with the foreign policy of the Nazi regime and aspects of its political ideology . |
| 23 | And many an insect was saved , perhaps from the very same predator , by an uncannily close resemblance to a twig , on occasions when the predator happened to be seeing it at relatively close range and in a good light . |
| 24 | We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it . |
| 25 | We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it . |
| 26 | Ryzhkov made no mention of a referendum in his address on May 24 , however , and subsequently officials appeared to be distancing themselves from the idea . |
| 27 | Visible now only in the panoramic view , the young woman appeared to be throwing something towards the few remaining Counsellors . |
| 28 | He was tall and gangling with a slack mouth and appeared to be holding something behind his back . |
| 29 | Otherwise there were few people about and those only men who appeared to be doing nothing in particular . |
| 30 | Ashley waited to be told which of them she was to accompany , but the numbers dwindled and nothing was said . |