Example sentences of "and seem to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair was black , like her daughter 's , and seemed to be cut in much the same shape , and she was wearing a purple dress . |
| 2 | People were climbing down from the truck and seemed to be forming another queue . |
| 3 | The eagle was clinging with his talons to the wall of the old female 's cage and seemed to be looking into it as if to work out where she had gone . |
| 4 | The shape outside had stopped , and seemed to be looking for something . |
| 5 | He looked puzzled , and seemed to be looking beyond Lesley-Jane into the wings . |
| 6 | At first , no doubt , it was in the nature of an exercise just to see if he could still write : he was working very closely to the structure of " Burnt Norton " and seemed to be using the earlier poem as a model from which to draw inspiration . |
| 7 | Coming round the final bend he had opened up a substantial lead and seemed to be coasting home . |
| 8 | Sally was throwing herself all over the place and seemed to be enjoying it . |
| 9 | He was watching John Russell all the while and seemed to be picking his words carefully . |
| 10 | She felt that the children did not like her because of this and seemed to be taking less and less notice of her . |
| 11 | She was among a group of three or four fine does who were talking quietly together and seemed to be feeding as well . |
| 12 | They were 15 minutes from a battling victory at St James ' Park and seemed to be riding tremendous pressure when referee Steve Bell stepped in to award the Division One high-fliers a spot kick . |
| 13 | He paused and seemed to be considering his next words with especial care . |
| 14 | The boy paused and seemed to be gathering his wits . |
| 15 | He came down from the knoll and seemed to be searching for somebody . |
| 16 | They both looked tense and uncomfortable , and seemed to be searching the journalists for faces they knew . |
| 17 | Previously , she had felt that the activities provided for retired people were not sufficiently mind-stretching and seemed to be based on younger people 's vision of what pensioners wanted . |
| 18 | It was soothing and restful , and seemed to be urging him gently onward in some mysterious fashion . |
| 19 | Leni smiled quickly , then just sat , very upright as if setting a good example , and seemed to be thinking something out . |
| 20 | They appeared in buoyant spirits , and seemed to be telling each other jokes . |
| 21 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 22 | Damp and shivering , she stared with growing dismay as it hid the end of the jetty and seemed to be threatening to obscure her own feet . |
| 23 | But he was offhand with me and seemed to be waiting all the time for me to go out . |
| 24 | Gifford never gave up and seemed to be making an appreciable dent on the gap , but at the winning post Foinavon was still fifteen lengths in front . |
| 25 | She moved her head slowly now and seemed to be making an effort to speak , and then she muttered , ‘ You 'll be getting your calling up papers eventually , in any case , so why … ? |
| 26 | Mrs Thatcher saw this as the tragic side of a prosperous Britain , pointing out on the BBC news on 20 August 1989 when visiting the wreck , that people had more money nowadays , and seemed to be going out and enjoying themselves , which was why so many people were on board . |
| 27 | When she went to look round she was both daunted and enchanted by its dark , gloomy interior which was mostly painted green and seemed to be trapped in a 19th-century time warp . |
| 28 | A wren or robin scrambled about in a clump of thorns and seemed to be scolding . |
| 29 | It was warmer than the surrounding air , and seemed to be emitting steam or smoke . |
| 30 | The main point , though , was that Iran was now offering to help with the British hostages and seemed to be acknowledging that they were alive . |