Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He set up the TV Times coverage , and we all pretended to be having a wonderful time for the benefit of the camera .
2 Naturally , I wanted to see him and to introduce him to my family ; but I also felt that he needed to get out of London from time to time , because he seemed to be assuming an increasing load of public work , as well as public lectures and broadcasts .
3 Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately .
4 The chapter concentrates upon a particular moment in the story of British fascism , when this ideological tradition seemed to be taking a new turn .
5 First the man insulted her , and now he seemed to be taking a perverse delight in taunting her .
6 Muldoon seemed to be taking a long time over his coffee .
7 But his face was serious now , and he seemed to be taking an inordinate interest in the grain of his desktop .
8 The green light surrounding them now seemed to be imparting a sick lifeless pallor .
9 He seemed to be wearing a dark-coloured suit .
10 This male shape or essence seemed to be wearing a white coat ( a medic 's stark white smock ) .
11 Juron almost seemed to be enjoying a second adolescence in company with his Scouts , while yet remaining devoutly responsible .
12 But the man seemed to be holding a round turnip-shaped watch in his hand and glaring at it .
13 However , these GPs seemed to be seeking a medical solution to these women 's problems .
14 But it was n't true ; today the invisible hand of fate seemed to be drawing a thick black line under that particular chapter of her life which involved anything related to Luke .
15 They seemed to be growing a green carpet .
16 In the same way he himself seemed to be acquiring a greater and greater starkness , and soon after settling into Carlyle Mansions the order of his new life emerged .
17 Howard seemed to be making a doomed attempt to explain the Doctor 's business on the island without mentioning zombies , the Necronomicon or anything similar that the military men might find difficult to accept .
18 In the words of John Paton , " the clean break seemed to be making a clean sweep of the Party members " .
19 Gifford never gave up and seemed to be making an appreciable dent on the gap , but at the winning post Foinavon was still fifteen lengths in front .
20 They seemed to be doing a good job .
21 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 .
22 He also , Busacher observed , seemed to be playing a curious double game with both Ingrid and the little Hoflin — being charming to both of them and he was seen lunching with them on alternate days .
23 He had been sidelined by injury in 1985 and seemed to be playing a cat-and-mouse game with everybody in this year .
24 The wind seemed to be finding an incredible number of chinks in Water Gypsy 's structure .
25 And yet despite all this the pounds were creeping up on us and we seemed to be fighting a losing battle .
26 I mean , she seemed to be having a good time .
27 Cawthorne seemed to be having a private party .
28 The heat seemed to be having a heady effect on her , Lindsey thought faintly .
29 The two counties also happened to be playing a 2nd XI match at Stratford , where Cranmer made both his first and last appearance as a Warwickshire 2nd XI player .
30 Mr. Tony Favell , supported by Mr. David Harris , presented a Bill to remove from registers of common land and registers of town or village greens dwellinghouses registered under the Commons Registration Act 1965 which had been used as dwellinghouses for a minimum of twenty years immediately prior to the commencement of that Act ; and for purposes connected therewith : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 24 February and to be printed .
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