Example sentences of "seem [verb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 2 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 3 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 4 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock . |
| 7 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 8 | His voice seemed to fill the few inches ' space between them , bringing them even closer . |
| 9 | And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did . |
| 10 | However , chimpanzees raised in the wild seemed to have no such difficulties , presumably because they had had plenty of opportunity to observe copulation in other chimpanzees and so had learnt how to perform it themselves . |
| 11 | When they had left , Julia wondered whether to say anything or not , but David seemed to have no such inhibitions . |
| 12 | And Selvey 's summing-up was worthy of a high court judge : very frivolous , and most them marginal , but only five of the 34 wickets were leg-before and even those were of an apparently arbitrary nature : those given seemed to have no more merit than many that were not . ’ |
| 13 | Furthermore the resulting " socialist man " seemed to have the same needs as his capitalist counterpart for material goods , especially those based on energy and materially intensive technologies . |
| 14 | Indeed western European governments in general seemed to take the same view . |
| 15 | His voice only seemed to travel a few feet , then it stopped dead . |
| 16 | The unexpected development seemed to make no more sense than the feather and the note ; or , for that matter , the glass ball . |
| 17 | Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day . |
| 18 | Now that we have looked at Wharram Percy deserted village and seen something of the 30-year long excavations there , we should look at other studies and excavations on village sites which seem to suggest the same developments implied at Wharram Percy . |
| 19 | Most importantly , the people who will have to implement the community care reforms seem to share the same vision and , despite certain reservations , the same enthusiasm . |
| 20 | ‘ You and he seem to share the same ideas ! |
| 21 | We seem to think the same way . ’ |
| 22 | The laws of cause and effect , which appear to operate so consistently in the physical world , seem to have no such application in the world of metaphysics . |
| 23 | Those who most confidently claim to speak for British interests sometimes seem to have the least confidence that those interests are likely to prevail . |
| 24 | Seeing as you only like bands who seem to have the same attitudes as you , I 'm sure you will be pleased to know there is a band called Guns N' Roses who have this same attitude . |
| 25 | An early temple in Sicily had a huge terracotta Gorgon-mask in the gable-centre ; and groups of fighting animals , which seem to have the same function , adorn other early pediments . |
| 26 | Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such |
| 27 | Some of the tense/aspect distinctions of American Black English which have attracted the attention of sociolinguists seem to introduce the same problems of underlying structural non-identity as the Irish English perfect — an example is perfective done , illustrated by 19–21 . |
| 28 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 29 | Interestingly , Eysenck ( 1977 ) seems to encounter the same kind of problem . |
| 30 | Over the last five years , Martin Millar has stood alone as the one London novelist who seems to inhabit the same city as the rest of us . |