Example sentences of "[adv] seem [to-vb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice only seemed to travel a few feet , then it stopped dead . |
| 2 | Wealth thus seems to mean the same as ‘ property ’ , but ‘ property ’ is a term commonly used to refer to anything from Henry Ford II 's car company to the clothes you are wearing . |
| 3 | The to infinitive in sentences such as ( 21 ) — ( 25 ) above seems to involve the same mechanism of representation . |
| 4 | I did n't ever seem to get the same sort of satisfaction out of getting something to balance properly as I did out of seeing a patient recover , which was something you 'd helped them to do . |
| 5 | Those who most confidently claim to speak for British interests sometimes seem to have the least confidence that those interests are likely to prevail . |
| 6 | No one else seems to have the same criticism . |
| 7 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 8 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 9 | Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock . |
| 10 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |