Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims .
2	In a car outside these youngsters seemed to know something about the vandalism .
3	The Director seemed to know nothing about the College .
4	Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music .
5	Next morning he seemed to remember nothing of the night 's experiences , and Tess did not refer to his sleepwalking .
6	I seemed to do anything to the car , mind with the water pump I think they check , they have to er adjust the timing .
7	To Pétain , for whom the future seemed to hold nothing but the obscurity of a colonel in retirement , the war and the dramatic failure of Plan XVII brought an unexpected opportunity to prove his ideas .
8	In consequence it is becoming increasingly accepted that not only does the anthropologist have his own social history and subjective stance , but more importantly , that those accounts which ignore this seem to lose something in the telling .
9	It is easy to see why credo , ‘ I believe ’ , should be a dubious case : belief does seem to leave something to the discretion of a trustee , and there may well be doubt whether a rather tentative expression of belief sufficiently expresses a testator 's intention that a trust should be set up .
10	This simple game based on the Prisoner 's Dilemma does seem to capture something of the problem of the arms race in real life .
11	The coral does n't seem to gain anything from the relationship ; the gobies can sometimes be seen pulling mucus off the coral , but this could be interpreted as parasitism rather than symbiosis .

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