Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So she seemed to have recognised the corpse and knew his christian name . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The excess of wine now seemed to have affected the Captain 's movements . |
| 5 | All except Jimmy seemed to have reached the corridor above . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But by move 50 he seemed to have lost the thread of the game completely and his position was considerably worse . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Jung seemed to have lost the emphasis on the body , and especially on the sexual instincts , which Freud retained in all his work . |
| 10 | In a famous encounter between Robert Byrne and Bobby Fischer in 1963 , Fischer seemed to have lost the game by the 21st move . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | In their examination of popular culture Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel were worried by the fact that music-hall seemed to belong far more to the professional performers than to the audiences and that it was individual stars who actually seemed to have created the stereotypes and much of the idiom . |
| 13 | For a moment it seemed to have broken the spell and punctured the mournful air of the church . |
| 14 | Oddly enough , the European press seemed to have ignored the news , which prompts thoughts of headlines of the ‘ Ripples in Cosmos , Europe cut off ’ variety . |
| 15 | As far as I was concerned , reading was an automatic skill rather than an indication of superior intelligence or understanding , and no one but myself seemed to have noticed the difference , or even realised that there was one . |
| 16 | Only Ken Wilson seemed to have grasped the essentials of public argument . |
| 17 | Dressed casually , he seemed to have assumed the personality of someone altogether warmer and more approachable , even human . |
| 18 | Palmerston seemed to have defeated the tsar . |
| 19 | My skin was brown and my hair streaked with nature 's own blond from the salt and sun : my very bones seemed to have absorbed the heat and now gave it back in the form of a glowing sense of confidence and well-being . |
| 20 | The water and the Juicy Fruit seemed to have done the trick because she felt great . |
| 21 | It seemed to have started the moment I got it home . |
| 22 | In the upheaval that was to come during the next 12 months , only the ECSC seemed to have avoided the scrapheap . |
| 23 | And , once he had taken three months off to play for England in Australia , the rumour seemed to have died the death . |
| 24 | Yet , judging by the earnest discussions going on around her , the melancholy theme seemed to have had the effect of switching everyone 's thoughts away from the actual tragedy that had happened in their midst . |
| 25 | Harriet seemed to have forgotten the grievances she 'd had against him . |
| 26 | My Aunt Lyallie came to keep my mother company until she recovered a little from the shock , which seemed to have worsened the condition of her eyes , for she was slowly going blind . |
| 27 | Tighter security and several breakthroughs by the police , including the interception of a bomb intended for Britain 's biggest office building , at Canary Wharf , seemed to have forced the IRA away from London towards provincial shopping centres and industrial sites . |
| 28 | Maggie herself , he knew , understood the situation well enough : there was no one more sensible than Maggie ; but her auntie , who seemed to have taken the place of her mother and , like a mother , had her future interests at heart , was always bringing her qualities to the fore for him to admire . |
| 29 | Held , allowing the appeal , the judge seemed to have taken the view that both sections 76 and 78 concerned misconduct by the police . |
| 30 | We seemed to have left the world behind . |