Example sentences of "and seem [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones . |
| 2 | Other Jewish families living in the warren of neighbouring streets where the rows of cramped houses confronted their twins at almost arm-stretching distance had no such suggestion of exclusiveness and seemed to encourage the natural ebullience of their inhabitants as well as confirming their more straitened circumstances . |
| 3 | The images in its head were confusing and seemed to hasten the dying feeling inside . |
| 4 | However , Kenneth Clark , who replied for the government , was not encouraging and seemed to accept the pessimistic view of Neville Trotter , Conservative MP for Tyne mouth , who blamed all the problems on Korean labour costs which were only 20% of those in the UK . |
| 5 | ‘ It was an amazing first set and winning it gave me a big boost and seemed to have the opposite effect on David , ’ said Corsie later . |
| 6 | These concentrations always present a clear decrease however and seem to contradict the apparent lack of a mutant phenotype . |
| 7 | Recently-hatched dogwhelks ( plate 1b ) are found at the same level as their capsules and seem to prefer the empty cases of barnacles to the shells of living or dead mussels . |
| 8 | He selects ‘ sons ’ — Gray was one such — and seems to seek the psychological satisfactions of their gratitude and deference . |