Example sentences of "sometimes it seem " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes it seemed like most of them were in Glasgow as well .
2 At night , at certain seasons , it glowed like fire , sometimes it seemed but the portal of a well-lighted hall ; and one old stone-breaker declared he had heard wonderful music issuing therefrom , the like of which he had never heard before ; while on one occasion he had seen troops of gaily-dressed elfins repairing thither , some on foot and some in carriages , and they all went into this mysterious hall .
3 And this issue he had been hard put to it to find a couple of intelligent letters for the correspondence page ; sometimes it seemed that every crackbrain in north-east Norfolk read the PANUP newsletter but that no one else did .
4 Sometimes it seemed to her that old age reduced anxiety .
5 Sometimes it seemed I knew more about my guests than they did themselves .
6 Sometimes it seemed to her that he preferred to live in a perpetual shiver .
7 Sometimes it seemed that those who loved them were almost willing the band to spend their lives touring pubs , returning to Farnborough merely to return the empties and pick up the bills .
8 It was odd ; I found it difficult to focus on the time that had passed since he 'd been kidnapped ; sometimes it seemed like moments , at others like years .
9 Sometimes it seemed that those who had profited most successfully form the bonanza that he Shah had unleashed were the first to go -with members of the Pahlavi dynasty leading the rush tot he exit .
10 Sometimes it seemed another lifetime .
11 Kenneth Williams was a marvellous prop for Kenneth Horne and like all good props , sometimes it seemed as if the whole thing would collapse without him .
12 Sometimes it seemed that the fear of God or of some other supernatural force was well inside of Ken , too .
13 He was down and sometimes it seemed as if nothing was going to shake him out of it , apart from a laugh at someone else 's expense or a shared moment of despair .
14 Sometimes it seemed like he was breaking the club transfer record every week , but he told me if I kept on doing it I was safe . ’
15 Sometimes it seemed as if Charley did not distinguish between a live body and a dead one .
16 It knows the right and wrong which have been instilled into it and — a contentious assertion — sometimes it seems to know what is right or wrong even although it has no behavioural conditioning for that situation .
17 Sometimes it seems that the world scarcely changes .
18 Sometimes it seems that the problems are completely out of our control .
19 If you could have paper things … sometimes it seems to be putting out fresh plates , eating off them , washing them , and then putting them out again … some days you seem to be at it all day long .
20 From these deliberations ( and sometimes it seems in spite of them ) a number of developments have been noted .
21 Sometimes it seems you will never get there .
22 Sometimes it seems that way , does n't it ?
23 Sometimes it seems that a destructive tension has been created between the new deal , achieving a balance , and the forthcoming reforms of specialist training .
24 It is important not to be inflexible when looking at housing options , although sometimes it seems that dogma is of overriding importance to staff and , indeed , more important than finding solutions which suit individuals .
25 Sometimes it seems as if we 're all one big family who usually squabble and keep falling out but who suddenly join forces because we 're threatened by the family down the road .
26 Sometimes it seems the entire nation is falling apart !
27 Sometimes it seems that death might be … ’
28 Sometimes it seems as if you 're only interested in the children . ’
29 Sometimes it seems more appropriate to describe tonic stress placement in terms of ‘ information content ’ : the more predictable a word 's occurrence is in a given context , the lower its information content is , and tonic stress will tend to be placed on words with high information content .
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