Example sentences of "seem to have [vb pp] the [noun sg] " 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 | For a moment it seemed to have broken the spell and punctured the mournful air of the church . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dressed casually , he seemed to have assumed the personality of someone altogether warmer and more approachable , even human . |
| 16 | Palmerston seemed to have defeated the tsar . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The water and the Juicy Fruit seemed to have done the trick because she felt great . |
| 19 | It seemed to have started the moment I got it home . |
| 20 | In the upheaval that was to come during the next 12 months , only the ECSC seemed to have avoided the scrapheap . |
| 21 | And , once he had taken three months off to play for England in Australia , the rumour seemed to have died the death . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Held , allowing the appeal , the judge seemed to have taken the view that both sections 76 and 78 concerned misconduct by the police . |
| 26 | We seemed to have left the world behind . |
| 27 | When they resumed on the third afternoon after time lost for rain , they lost quick wickets , and at 214 for 6 seemed to have wasted the advantage . |
| 28 | They found her drawings and watercolours too like his own and he disguised his embarrassment by joking to her that he seemed to have cornered the nut-tree market . |
| 29 | Since Simpson had left the building with the others , Duvall seemed to have acquired the position of Jimmy Devlin 's personal guard . |
| 30 | By larding on the make-up , Jane Pargeter seemed to have regained the charm and sharpness she displayed on television but lacked on the afternoon following the murder . |