Example sentences of "seem [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was indeed his year for honours since in January he had been awarded the Order of Merit by George VI ; some have said that this gratified him more than the Nobel , and certainly he seemed to enjoy wearing the medal and ribbon on ceremonial occasions . |
| 2 | She seemed resolved to sign the document . |
| 3 | Since he continued at the same time to deny any intention to stand , the letter seemed designed to test the ground while adding to the ferment in the parliamentary party — especially among those MPs sitting in vulnerable , marginal seats . |
| 4 | Every room was supervised by hideous paintings of humourless De Belvings and all the furniture seemed designed to inflict an ache upon the muscles of the human body . |
| 5 | It looked good to the eye , it felt firm underfoot , the Land Rover had no problems , but the wheelbarrow seemed designed to plough a furrow . |
| 6 | The ceremony seemed designed to express the triumph of the united Angevin family over the old enemy of Toulouse . |
| 7 | you know that back door key , I seemed to remember picking a key up thinking it was the garage key |
| 8 | There is no treatment available for the condition in China and Sheng seemed destined to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair . |
| 9 | There was clearly a close friendship between them , and the Office gives a moving account of his efficacy in curing her of some kind of fit : He came and found her mute , but when he had seated himself at her window and they had eaten together , it chanced that at the end of the dinner the recluse wished to sleep , and oppressed by slumber her head drooped towards the window where God 's saint , Richard , was reclining , and as she was leaning a litle on that same Richard , suddenly , with a vehement onslaught , such a grave vexation took her in her sleep that she seemed to wish to break the window of her house , and in that strong vexation she awoke , her speech was restored , and with great devotion she broke out into the words " Gloria tibi Domine " , and the blessed Richard completed the verse which she had begun . |
| 10 | Sarah hesitated , then seemed to decide to take the bull by the horns . |
| 11 | Some pairs of boots and wellingtons were lined up beside it , and on the wall , above a crude , oil landscape that seemed meant to depict the moor where the diver nested , was a long rack , presumably meant for fishing-rods . |
| 12 | Half the racing world seemed to have embraced the occasion , for which after the last race that afternoon there had been much speedy unrolling of glittering black and silver ceiling-to-floor curtaining , transforming the workaday interior of the grandstand into something ephemerally magnificent . |
| 13 | Those of you who attended this year 's day given by seemed to have gained a lot from it , so what else would you like ? |
| 14 | So she seemed to have recognised the corpse and knew his christian name . |
| 15 | The Soviet government , which once seemed to have recognised the danger of secrecy , evasion and falsehood , may now be slipping back into old ways , in even bigger matters than nuclear power . |
| 16 | The excess of wine now seemed to have affected the Captain 's movements . |
| 17 | When it was over and they climbed from the cars Danny needed a considerable amount of calming as his excitement seemed to have reached a peak . |
| 18 | Indeed , it did n't seem quite impossible even to me , as he seemed to have reached a kind of plateau — no better but certainly no worse , free of pain and very happy — often informing me that he was getting stronger every day . |
| 19 | They seemed to have reached a point of no return some time ago . ’ |
| 20 | Vegetables seemed to have reached a record price . |
| 21 | On 25 July the situation seemed to have reached an impasse . |
| 22 | All except Jimmy seemed to have reached the corridor above . |
| 23 | Business trip it might have been , but one way and another she seemed to have run the gamut of a vast spectrum of emotions , and now the barriers were up again , firmly in place . |
| 24 | She seemed to have lost a shoe , and her dress was not only dirty but torn in several places . |
| 25 | But by move 50 he seemed to have lost the thread of the game completely and his position was considerably worse . |
| 26 | Michael Banks , who by this time looked terminally tired , seemed to have lost the knack of timing which he had so laboriously achieved the day before , and so his lines were once again all over the place . |
| 27 | Jung seemed to have lost the emphasis on the body , and especially on the sexual instincts , which Freud retained in all his work . |
| 28 | In a famous encounter between Robert Byrne and Bobby Fischer in 1963 , Fischer seemed to have lost the game by the 21st move . |
| 29 | ‘ You really think you can play God with people 's lives , do n't you ? ’ she demanded shakily , rubbing her arm jerkily where his restraining grip seemed to have stopped the blood flow . |
| 30 | She could feel nothing but the cold , that seemed to have filled every pore of her body . |