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Example sentences of "[pers pn] seem have a [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I seemed to have a separate brain for each limb , but they 'd all broken off diplomatic relations .
2	Well I seem to have a sore throat I ca n't get rid of .
3	‘ I seem to have a veritable Serpentine in my locks , ’ said the newcomer , still shedding water and laughing wildly .
4	Not that I 'm a great , good or great singer it 's just I seem to have a strong voice .
5	She seemed to have a proper regard for the frivolous things in life .
6	She seemed to have a sensible head on her shoulders .
7	She seemed to have a natural gift of dignity . "
8	‘ You seem to have a slight temperature .
9	The pair of you seem to have a mutual-admiration society going . ’
10	‘ You seem to have a fair enough command of the English language .
11	She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle .
12	At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart .
13	Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries .
14	We seem to have a labour party that treats education as some kind of middle class hobby that thinks of education spending as something spent only on the bourgeoisie , something to do with a university , something not really important for ordinary people .
15	But looking back , we seem to have a selective memory for the best bits of the past .
16	She sighed happily , then went on , ‘ We seem to have a prospective buyer and Liz is making frantic signals to me , so I 'd better go .
17	We seem to have a tremendous lot of seagulls do n't we ?
18	We seem to have a good time whenever we 're out and always have something to talk about , which is really great .
19	So in spite of it being a mid-turn switch , in this case we seem to have a different type of switch from the one in ( 6 ) , for the other parties to the conversation respond differently to it .
20	Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do .
21	‘ I first saw his pictures during the punk period and they seemed to have a similar punch , a thriller realism . ’
22	They seemed to have a good relationship , agree about most things , and never , never row — at least , not in front of the children .
23	They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures .
24	They seem to have a certain psychological reality for native speakers as units of knowledge in spite of their abnormality as units of behaviour .
25	They seem to have a Gaelic sound to some of these names .
26	He seemed to have a solid grasp of what it 's really like to live in one of these estates .
27	He was all for England 's democracy and against any form of union with Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man , for which he seemed to have a particular dislike as " a nucleus of Celtic imagery " .
28	I remember one time before he met Hilda — he seemed to have a different lass every Saturday night for a year or more .
29	It seemed to have a good deal going for it .
30	Some of the popular writings it seems had a huge circulation : Samuel Solomon 's Guide to Health , or Advice to Both Sexes ran to 66 editions between 1782 and 1817 , and editions were still appearing in the later nineteenth century .