Example sentences of "they [verb] to be [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm sure have it , as time 's getting on the they seemed to be introducing more health things in I think that now that , tobacco er vegetables all the likes of that is different now what it was forty , fifty years ago |
2 | Well they , they seemed to be putting some finance in , but er it went through a bit of a flat spot and then the sold out I , I 'm sorry I 'm stuttering and all this but I have n't done my research you know and it , it 's , it 's tough going . |
3 | They seem to be eating each other . |
4 | And she said that they seem to be selling more |
5 | ( By the way , in case they happen to be reading this , my apologies to Phillip , Mary , Harold and Henry for taking their names in vain ! ) |
6 | Nevertheless , they are rarely used individually and to the exclusion of all other forms of communication , so they need to be considered all together ; each form of communication adding a little more to the message the horse is sending . |