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 . |