Example sentences of "seem to be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to be completing the check list . |
| 2 | For example , he seemed to be advocating no advice from the teacher in a child 's selection of books . |
| 3 | The only answer seemed to be to feed a couple of minutes every half hour or so . |
| 4 | It was Wharton 's 14th win in 15 fights — the other bout ended in a draw — but he seemed to be allowing the fight to slip away from him through uncharacteristic casualness in the fifth and sixth rounds . |
| 5 | Naturally , I wanted to see him and to introduce him to my family ; but I also felt that he needed to get out of London from time to time , because he seemed to be assuming an increasing load of public work , as well as public lectures and broadcasts . |
| 6 | Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately . |
| 7 | Muldoon seemed to be taking a long time over his coffee . |
| 8 | The chapter concentrates upon a particular moment in the story of British fascism , when this ideological tradition seemed to be taking a new turn . |
| 9 | Matthew Prescott seemed to be taking a heck of a time to open the door . |
| 10 | First the man insulted her , and now he seemed to be taking a perverse delight in taunting her . |
| 11 | devoted to the question of of of road transport and its limitations and erm er although again I mean there was no particular mention to any party other than the Government , erm it it certainly seemed to be taking a very critical view of of road transport and it does seem to be spreading now . |
| 12 | One thing about him struck Pumfrey as being unboyish : he seemed to be taking no pleasure from being so sensationally at the centre of things . |
| 13 | But his face was serious now , and he seemed to be taking an inordinate interest in the grain of his desktop . |
| 14 | I if I could just come in there you mentioned this er if you changed your mind on goods , and you seemed to be defining the legal position . |
| 15 | The green light surrounding them now seemed to be imparting a sick lifeless pallor . |
| 16 | Korda , in between doing his national service , seemed to be building a tennis career that would merely reach the dizzying heights of an anthill at best . |
| 17 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 18 | When Speelman seemed to be getting the better of it , Timman suddenly sacrificed two pieces to expose his opponent 's king . |
| 19 | The Germans , he reckoned , were trying to wipe out the docks , yet somehow the city centre seemed to be getting the worst of it — and all the shops and offices and streets of little houses . |
| 20 | The agitation mentioned just two months earlier now seemed to be consuming the whole Moslem world . |
| 21 | Yet in 1985 free-market Britain seemed to be outpacing the rest of bank-monitored Europe , which was in the throes of ‘ Eurosclerosis ’ : slow growth thanks to closed markets , protected managers and workers , and backward technology . |
| 22 | Britain , the alleged home of ‘ not one of us ’ , seemed to be wearing a halo to Jane at that moment . |
| 23 | This male shape or essence seemed to be wearing a white coat ( a medic 's stark white smock ) . |
| 24 | He seemed to be wearing a dark-coloured suit . |
| 25 | He seemed to be inspecting the train , raking the length of it with a slow , sweeping , lop-sided gaze . |
| 26 | Pascoe chose another moment on the tape and the waltz seemed to be reaching a finale : all brass and basses . |
| 27 | This in an ordinary way would not have mattered , but it mattered in this particular case and mattered quite fatally , because at various stages of the discussion , when we seemed to be reaching an agreement , I pressed Mr Smith about whether there was any likelihood , whatever the agreement was , that it would be acceptable to the entire population of Rhodesia , which the British government had laid down as a precondition . |
| 28 | He did n't wander over to the rack of imported American comic books as he usually did , but he seemed to be watching the street outside . |
| 29 | His objective seemed to be to save the Radical party 's electoral chances by matching promise for promise the prospectus of the rival Justicialist party . |
| 30 | Every clock in the city seemed to be booming the hour . |