Example sentences of "always seem [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away . |
| 2 | In the movies they always seemed to make the kidnapped party drive , but Maxim thought about Dann driving his — Maxim 's — car into the first acacia while he watched the gun , which seemed to have hypnotised him . |
| 3 | But it seemed that Sister Benedicta must sin a lot because she always seemed to get the dirty jobs . |
| 4 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 5 | Davie always seemed to have the best girls , and none of them seemed to complain . |
| 6 | Practically everyone gets roped into ‘ bowling ’ at one time or another but the family , and , always seem to maintain the highest profile on the alley . |
| 7 | Players of his calibre will always scare opponents because they always seem to make the right decisions . ’ |
| 8 | A very odd case has come to my department — we always seem to get the odd ones — concerning the disappearance of the managing director of a shipping company . |
| 9 | We always seem to get the wrong sort of weather in |
| 10 | I always seem to get the wrong results even though I 'm working as hard as possible . |
| 11 | He always seems to have a sore throat and a fever , so I do n't like to leave him when he 's not well . |
| 12 | At the same time , it builds a prison-house of rhetoric from which there may be no practical possibility of escape : as later with the writings of Baudrillard , their critique , in its totalizing embrace , always seems to have a neutralizing answer to suggestions of difference . |
| 13 | For practical reasons , it is not more than an interest though — but probably as a direct result of this interest , my fish collection always seems to have an excessive quantity of eels . |
| 14 | Although supporting evolution , these discoveries did not always seem to confirm the Darwinian interpretation of how the process worked . |
| 15 | Halfway through a d-i-y job , when you reach for a screwdriver , do you always seem to find the right tip and size on the last you pick up ? |
| 16 | In short , teachers are helped to offer all children , as Quinton put it when reporting his and Rutter 's findings ( 1988 ) on the healing effects of teachers on children in even severe adversity , ‘ good school experiences , such as some form of success , accomplishment , sense of self-esteem or just pleasure in school activities ’ , with consequent better adjustment in adult life — even if they did not always seem to have an immediate effect ( ! ) . |