Example sentences of "seem to have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His manner seemed to have reverted to normal . |
| 2 | In schools where there was no committee , librarians seemed to have reverted to traditional allegiances ( e.g. with the English department ) and were " going it alone " as before , though undoubtedly in a rather more fertile and responsive climate , and in some cases with a slightly enhanced allocation of free periods . |
| 3 | And although other people were certainly present they seemed to have faded to some other level of reality , very far removed from herself and this bulky , swarthy man who was letting her know , without a word , not only that he had her , but that should he now refuse to open the trap and let her in she would plead with him to do so . |
| 4 | The tan seemed to have faded since last night . |
| 5 | There was no way that it could be admired or praised , but Eve Malone seemed to have risen above this . |
| 6 | Her blood seemed to have turned into heavy oil in her body , and something was dragging her down so ruthlessly that she let herself fall into the harsh carpet of pebbles . |
| 7 | This stage of the palaver seemed to have ended with four soldiers dead , the capital under curfew and the general back in his palace . |
| 8 | Charity was relieved that she seemed to have managed to side-track Mandy . |
| 9 | Anthony had once seemed to want her badly , but that had hardly lasted even through their honeymoon , and he seemed to have seized on any excuse since Flavia 's death to avoid sharing her bed . |
| 10 | All the green of Undersea seemed to have fused in that clearest of emeralds ; it was as different from the drifting atmosphere as , in Ruth 's own world , water from air . |
| 11 | It he is right , then stage transgressions seemed to have spoken to immediate temptations in diverse ways . |
| 12 | The reliable rhythm of her pulse seemed to have changed in some odd and basic way . |
| 13 | Folly felt almost embarrassed at herself for the ease with which she was finding these excuses — and for the fact that she seemed to have slipped into mental first-name terms with this man who was , after all , a stranger . |
| 14 | He had learned one vital piece of information where Riddle went on the night of his disappearance — and he had no wish to persecute these youngsters , who seemed to have acted with good intentions . |
| 15 | A number of different factors seem to have contributed to this extensive scale of decentralization from the major metropolitan areas , including changes in residential preferences and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less organized labour such as married women . |
| 16 | I seem to have gone into this exactly the same somehow . |
| 17 | Sometimes the very old seem to have moved beyond that kind of fear . |
| 18 | Most seem to have developed between 1130 and 1200 , but on some estates the process must have been complete by 1183 when the Bolden Book was compiled . |
| 19 | The same inhibitions which kept clergy clean-shaven seem to have applied to clerical uniform . |
| 20 | Such low relief is found in Greek art too ; but Greek sculptors seem to have begun with free-standing statues , and when they came to relief their approach was affected by the conventions of that art . |
| 21 | Both seem to have tripped over some elementary physics . |
| 22 | I believe that both views of their writing are justified in that they seem to have oscillated between these two poles and such oscillations are noted in several places in this book . |
| 23 | In contrast to other schools of Judaism , they seem to have subscribed to some form of reincarnation . |
| 24 | Over the years , the experts seem to have got in all of a lather over what we should do to cleanse our skin properly . |
| 25 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 26 | The balance between headings and text has been lost ; the typesetting is definitely more uneven and gappy ; and you seem to have switched to cheaper paper such that there is more show-through . |
| 27 | It was a separate company from the BCR , though some of the directors seem to have belonged to both . |
| 28 | The exhibits in the Brussels exhibition seem to have had in common only a concentration on clearly defined simple forms and a corresponding limitation of colour , and very few of them had anything at all in common with the work of Picasso and Braque . |
| 29 | Masons seem to have earned around 15s in London over the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century , and if employment was regular , that seems to represent a " middle line " for metropolitan artisans until the steeply inflationary 1790s . |
| 30 | dolphins show marked development of those parts of the brain responsible for orientation , social skill , emotional self-control and perhaps even humour … . they seem to have responded to social and sexual pressures rather than to the purely physical . |