Example sentences of "it [verb] to [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to be operating from the back room of a house . |
| 2 | John marvelled at the way it seemed to be thinking for itself . |
| 3 | It seemed to be looking for something . |
| 4 | It was a very small patch , about the size of a postage stamp , and the two sides of it seemed to be splitting down the middle and opening slowly outwards , like a pair of shutters on some tiny window . |
| 5 | Not only did it fail to achieve all the gains on which it seemed to be calculating in embarking on the assault , but it sustained one particularly debilitating blow in the course of it . |
| 6 | It seemed to be calling to them and Carrie thought of fairy tales she had read — you looked back at something behind you and were caught in its spell ! |
| 7 | It seemed to be competing in the age-old quest for the secret of perpetual motion and drove everyone bananas . |
| 8 | Its mouth was open and it seemed to be grinning at him . |
| 9 | She 'd lied about it out of pique , but now it seemed to be turning to her advantage . |
| 10 | All day this shadow grew in her mind and by the time school was over and she was running along the railway line , it seemed to be running behind her like some dark , winged creature . |
| 11 | It seemed to be heading from the far side of his grandfather 's bed towards the door . |
| 12 | It seemed to be standing in the snow , a little metal cap protecting it against the biting breeze , but as we approached closer , my stomach turned . |
| 13 | At first Sergeant Bramble thought it was one of the latest Atco motor-mowers but it seemed to be coming from above them . |
| 14 | Once again , it seemed to be coming from the direction of the hill . |
| 15 | It seemed to be coming from everywhere — and nowhere — at once . |
| 16 | Ian Frank , of the local environment group NEON , said it seemed to be coming from the ICI Wilton site . |
| 17 | It seemed to be floating towards me , but to be sure I forced myself towards it . |
| 18 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 19 | CHC had been saying for a long time , and it seemed to be falling on deaf ears that a date should be set for the closure of Friern and that money should not be spent on the hospital but on services in the community . |
| 20 | On the prototype a 100VA transformer , which was unnecessarily big , but because it happened to be standing on the shelf , was used . |
| 21 | It appears to be working in both the bedrooms and the kitchen but not , alas , the main sitting-room . ’ |
| 22 | Sometimes , for example , the id refers to a section of the mind , at other times it appears to be alluding to a whole person or agent . |
| 23 | The erm , the the nature of the erm the fourteenth of June , the the the Total Quality minute , the it seems to be referring to a document that sets out various phases of the er Total Quality programme . |
| 24 | It seems to be referring to a document that that that sets out the whole total quality process as far as the commission is concerned . |
| 25 | It seems to be taking for ever . |
| 26 | But it seems to be getting into the the the throat and and the chest . |
| 27 | But most of it seems to be going to shady ‘ Near Eastern ’ dealers and private citizens . |
| 28 | Now it seems to be working over here too ; Alsace is becoming established as a reliable , perhaps even the most reliable , wine bar white available . |
| 29 | The whole operation sounds too neat to be true — but it seems to be working at least as well as other last-ditch cancer treatments . |
| 30 | Oh aye er it seems to be coming into fashion , people buy the , ee , ee these cheap items like rings |