Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [adv] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was transparent , with these little black circles in it that seemed to jump backwards and forwards at you . |
| 2 | It was still dominated by the long nose and wide mouth , also by eyes of an intense pale blue , which always seemed to focus sharply and penetratingly on whoever he was talking to . |
| 3 | The reward , for those who had spent the evening feeling uneasily close to the edge was Faure , the sunny , satisfying C minor piano quartet , whose climbing lines seemed to settle again and again on to a ledge of happy serenity . |
| 4 | What bothered him most was that the past seemed to get closer and closer to the present . |
| 5 | After Morris came Joe Karam and as the 70s went on and on Mains kept playing to his high level for Southern and Otago , but that All Black place he had held so briefly seemed to get further and further away . |
| 6 | Things have gone er , better for women they have , in the restoration of a women publishers and there were n't any in last century , you know i er things go they seem to swing backwards and forwards all the time . |
| 7 | Some minerals seem to survive more or less unaltered even after being subject to prolonged weathering , whereas others decompose very rapidly . |
| 8 | Well you seem to have more or less damned the er Prime Ministers ' vision of a classless society ! |
| 9 | Yet despite all the good intentions , health and fitness for large numbers of people are still elusive goals which seem to recede further and further away . |
| 10 | This discovery probably had an important effect on the search for extensions to axiom A and the notion of structural stability ; it seems to have more or less stopped it . |
| 11 | In fact , Hugh had seemed to recede further and further into the distance with every step she took . |
| 12 | erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy . |