Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he never seemed to object to members of his staff who had succumbed to the pleasures of the weed and smoked like chimney-pots . |
| 2 | Clearly Marty was a back number now ; Lori seemed to go through men like a knife through butter . |
| 3 | On inflation , the Conservative Party seemed to fall into line with television , the other parties , and the public . |
| 4 | But I was so lucky that with one exception , everything seemed to fall into place at exactly the right time . ’ |
| 5 | I think it must have been out of doors , because what I recall most is the way she seemed to dwindle on planes of blue . ’ |
| 6 | Dustin seemed to behave towards fame with a certain cynicism , rather like Ben Braddock at the party thrown for him by his parents to celebrate his graduation . |
| 7 | It is true that Robert Harley ( now Earl of Oxford ) and Viscount Bolingbroke seemed to flirt with Jacobitism in the period 1710 – 14 , but they were never sincere , and their actions must be set in the context of their attempts to rally disparate groups of Tories behind them in their own personal struggle for dominance within the party . |
| 8 | Mr Malik seemed to specialize in bits of things . |
| 9 | From a nervous start , she seemed to grow in confidence towards the end . |
| 10 | li ) that the Greeks seemed to walk among Macedonians as demigods among wild beasts . |
| 11 | The world seemed to consist of spongers like Marc , supporters like Christopher , and victims like Francis . |
| 12 | And Adimov seemed to look for admiration from Holly when he told his story . |
| 13 | With her glossy curls and ripe-peach skin she seemed to glow from top to toe . |
| 14 | De Gaulle had made of France 's relations with the United States and the rest of NATO , what Ceauşescu seemed to do for Romania over the next decade within the Warsaw pact . |
| 15 | A continuing military buildup and updating of equipment , especially in the development of the Navy and Air Force , seemed to point to ambitions in the region beyond immediate land borders . |
| 16 | She 'd been in front , but then the horse fell and seemed to land on top of her . |
| 17 | She seemed to beam with happiness in his presence and hang on every word he said . |
| 18 | Well as you know , in nineteen eighty one , there were there were troubles all over the country , which seemed to start from problems in Brixton . |
| 19 | That night , the glow of her lanterns shimmered on the water like dancing jewels : they seemed to beckon to Sara in a strange , seductive way . |
| 20 | And in that instant her heart seemed to burst with love inside her and simultaneously shrivel with grief and helplessness . |
| 21 | They thrust and tensed with delight in their own intricate machinery of bones and sinews , as the ribs that sprang from the piers of the nave seemed to quiver with joy in their own energy . |
| 22 | He did n't refer to the party , nor did he mention the earring , but the subject seemed to hang over Merrill like the sword of Damocles . |
| 23 | Well-launched as it was , I regret to report that the organization of China-Canada Inc. seemed to die of inactivity after its founder left for China in 1946 ; it was , after all , very much of a one-man show and the big names on all the committees were more or less honorary only . |
| 24 | We had observed that older people in the area seemed to die like flies in the winter from heart attacks and cold-related illnesses and we were confident that it was the inside of our houses that were killing them , not the outside . |
| 25 | She seemed to lie in bed for a long time before falling asleep . |
| 26 | The land seemed to howl with pain for days . |
| 27 | The woman seemed to change in front of Kim 's eyes , seemed almost to grow in size . |
| 28 | In the next house , Miss Goulding seemed to toil from morning to night at top speed to ensure that the laundry she worked on was ready for delivery by Fred Cotton . |
| 29 | As regards the world and the planets , the Earth was still the centre of the Universe , with the planets fixed on transparent spheres rotating , so that the planets seemed to move in circles round the Earth . |
| 30 | The name seemed to act on fitzAlan like a goad . |