Example sentences of "seem [prep] be [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had expected more censure , more blame , but instead Fen seemed to be taking everything upon himself . |
| 2 | You seemed to be taking it for granted , ’ she pointed out . |
| 3 | Lewis seemed to be taking it as a personal insult that the family had come to the Hebrides for their summer holiday . |
| 4 | The doctors seemed to be availing themselves of my immobility . |
| 5 | I did n't know whether my imagination was leading me astray when you seemed to be implying something like that . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Everybody at the hospital seemed to be accusing me of causing the injuries . |
| 7 | He seemed to be watching her like a hawk , waiting for some reaction . |
| 8 | Only now his charges seemed to be settling themselves into occupation , having forgotten the urgent purpose of their return to London . |
| 9 | The words coming from behind her sent Lindsey Blake whirling to face the speaker , a slim , dark-haired girl of about her own age , who seemed to be regarding her with some amusement . |
| 10 | seemed to be holding them from better place from the springs we could n't find are n't they ? |
| 11 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
| 12 | You seemed to be drawing me like a magnet , and there was Claudine , anyway . ’ |
| 13 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 14 | The policeman seemed to be treating him with far too much respect , Folly thought with irritation . |
| 15 | She let her lashes flutter down briefly to shut out the sight of Lucenzo 's smouldering eyes , which seemed to be mesmerising her into surrender . |
| 16 | She seemed to be suffering me in silence , as she suffered everyone and everything else . |
| 17 | Jess asked , though she 'd noticed the questions seemed to be driving him like a snail into his shell . |
| 18 | Even with his knapsack containing not only their sandwiches but his camera and painting materials , Fen seemed to be making nothing of it . |
| 19 | Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached . |
| 20 | His hold on her arm seemed to be doing nothing to him at all . |
| 21 | She seemed to be deciding something about the knitting in her lap . |
| 22 | It was also , in his view , unpardonable on grounds of principle , since by the autumn of 1940 Vichy seemed to be aligning itself with the foreign policy of the Nazi regime and aspects of its political ideology . |
| 23 | ‘ No , ’ she interrupted , ‘ but you seem to be accusing me of exactly the same things I accused you of — or at least had to ask about . |
| 24 | " Oh never mind , Lord Hulton , they seem to be getting them down the hill now and I 'm not in such a panic this morning , anyway . " |
| 25 | You seem to be financing yourself by borrowing against your leases — leveraging in an expanding property market while interest rates are low . ’ |
| 26 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 27 | This morning we seem to be having nothing but problems . ’ |
| 28 | I always seem to be landing you in it . ’ |
| 29 | I seem to be doing nothing but making lists of things that need fixing . ’ |
| 30 | May we try to do something to make other people 's lives happier and easier — even those people who seem to be doing nothing at all to help us . |