Example sentences of "seem to be saying " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would not have liked it if she seemed to be saying that they could get away any time they wanted to . |
| 2 | It seemed to be saying : ‘ You and who else ? ’ , or ‘ Do you think that you 're really big enough ? . ’ |
| 3 | He seemed to be saying it as much to convince himself as to convince all the rest . |
| 4 | All Kevin Rowland seemed to be saying was that he had something to say . |
| 5 | Join Congress , Mr Gandhi seemed to be saying , and create a party strong enough to have a clear majority . |
| 6 | Who , Elinor 's expression seemed to be saying , is Martin Rubashon ? |
| 7 | He seemed to be saying , ‘ Listen Geoff , there are some things I can do for you and there are some things I ca n't . |
| 8 | Granny 's crepe paper slipped over one eye and she seemed to be saying ‘ Serves them right . ’ |
| 9 | How dare she , he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page , how dare she enjoy reading books when he could n't ? |
| 10 | Now the tiny old man in the window nearest to Billy seemed to be saying something , but his voice was so soft and whispery , Little Billy had to lean right up close to catch his words . |
| 11 | What most of the practitioners seemed to be saying was that the satisfactions of practice lay in ‘ helping people ’ , whatever the problem , whereas the frustrations lay in their inability to exercise their technical skills more fully because of the pressure of time . |
| 12 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 13 | Like a child sticking out its tongue , they seemed to be saying , I know something you do n't know . |
| 14 | Why ? his small beady eyes seemed to be saying , What did I do ? |
| 15 | What had she got to lose , she seemed to be saying , now that it had come to this ? |
| 16 | Bevan seemed to be saying just that . |
| 17 | Edward shouted back something that the wind carried away , but he seemed to be saying , once again , that he was not very used to boats . |
| 18 | He had not told her he loved her , but his every action seemed to be saying it , even the tone of his voice . |
| 19 | But I 'd also become disenchanted with pro-lifers who seemed to be saying that they loved my unborn baby but hated me ! |
| 20 | If I understood him correctly , he seemed to be saying that our inflation rate was converging too quickly , and that that was imposing costs on the economy . |
| 21 | This was par for the course , they seemed to be saying . |
| 22 | The commentators seemed to be saying that Deane did n't seem able to lift his feet to jump for a ball , again any comments ? |
| 23 | Her nerves were worn ragged by the swift changes in his moods , as first they convinced her of his avowed antipathy , as he called it , and then somehow , without any warning , he seemed to be saying quite the opposite . |
| 24 | His brown eyes seemed to be saying things again , things she wanted to hear him speak . |
| 25 | Your view ; I have my own , he seemed to be saying . |
| 26 | Several times Paul Guillaume came back to the house to have his portrait painted in a discreet , dark suit , starched collar and tie , jaunty trilby hat , a gloved hand languidly holding a cigarette and thinly parted lips which seem to be saying ‘ I am a man of exquisite taste ’ . |
| 27 | With so many variable factors , it ought to be possible to provide a ‘ fit ’ to almost any curve ; the interesting point of the study is whether or not the scale factors put into the equations seem to be saying anything that would lead to an elucidation of the influences at work . |
| 28 | The verses seem to be saying that the disciples understand because they have been given the secrets of the mystery of the kingdom but everybody else is taught in parables so that it will confuse them and prevent them coming into the kingdom . |
| 29 | ‘ , I seem to be saying where I am only because there is another use of ‘ Here ’ , as for example in answer to ‘ Where 's the thimble ? ’ , in which I am saying where something is . |
| 30 | What they seem to be saying about outcomes of adoption is quite positive but nevertheless we should be warned that the heady days of ‘ no child is unadoptable ’ are in the past . |