Example sentences of "seem [prep] be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 2 | It seemed to be calling out to him , calling out to his feeling , his very being . |
| 3 | The possibility of an increase in Japanese interest rates was raised , but seemed to be ruled out for the present by the Finance Minister , Ryutaro Hashimoto , in a statement made after his return to Tokyo . |
| 4 | Chemistry in turn , even ‘ organic chemistry ’ , was considerably more advanced than the life-sciences , which just seemed to be taking off into an era of exciting progress . |
| 5 | It seemed to be locked on to some invisible beam that was projecting from out of June 's vagina . |
| 6 | Frightened as much by her own emotional weakness as by the almost dangerous , threatening atmosphere which seemed to be building up between them , she was beginning to feel like some poor rabbit caught in a trap . |
| 7 | Phrase by phrase , syllable by syllable , a bewitchment seemed to be building up round Adam ; Ruth almost thought he shone with his own light now , like a flame . |
| 8 | At last she seemed to be getting through to him . |
| 9 | When it seemed to be getting out of hand , he insisted that its aim was to improve the system , not to change it . |
| 10 | All those nights when she had n't been able to sleep seemed to be catching up with her . |
| 11 | Suddenly the lack of sleep and tension seemed to be catching up in one great wave of dizziness . |
| 12 | The desert sand sometimes seemed to be made up of pellets of dried yeast , road-workers ' grit , or face-powder . |
| 13 | My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or electrical impulses . ’ |
| 14 | My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or spikes or electrical impulses . |
| 15 | Any commercial vans or lorries seemed to be made out of what was originally private cars . |
| 16 | Vechey seemed to be grinning up at him , taunting him with the mystery of his death . |
| 17 | All the lights were on and people seemed to be moving about in every room . |
| 18 | The Palestinian need for Jordan seemed to be borne out during the years 1983–6 when the PLO lived on the edge of political extinction . |
| 19 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 20 | Above all , Marx 's analysis seemed to be borne out by reality , by developments both in the West , with the rapid rise of the German Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) , and in Russia itself . |
| 21 | Little waves of lightning seemed to be flashing out of her eyes . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know about anyone else , ’ said Jay , in the eerily calm eye of the storm , ‘ but you seemed to want me , seemed to be holding back from me and I do n't know why . |
| 23 | ‘ No , ’ Ashley said , beginning to feel flustered by what seemed to be shaping up into another interrogation . |
| 24 | His eyes seemed to be popping out of his head in uncontrollable anger . |
| 25 | The nun 's eyes seemed to be popping out of her head as she again wielded the ruler . |
| 26 | You never thought of O as someone who was with people or who went home with people , and he never seemed to be looking round for someone all the time , which is how most of us must have appeared . |
| 27 | When she signed her first big contract , Marilyn reputedly said , ‘ That 's the last cock I 'll have to suck ’ , though at the same time she seemed to be looking around for greater conquests . |
| 28 | Things seemed to be looking up at last , ’ she says . |
| 29 | The dreadful genteelism for ‘ hard up ’ seemed to be wrung out of her . |
| 30 | His interest in Roman remains was minimal , and in any case his ears ( incipient otosclerosis , his personal physician had diagnosed ) seemed to be filling up with thicker and thicker wads of cotton-wool each day . |