Example sentences of "just [subord] [pers pn] seem [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can we really do nothing about it , just because they seem to have taken one of our slogans , one of our demands and twisted it ? |
| 2 | Practices would be wise , however , not to appoint unqualified people just because they seem to have good listening skills . |
| 3 | She forced it up and down , just as they seemed to do in the movies . |
| 4 | Do they do it all at once , or in chronological order , or just as it seems to emerge ? |
| 5 | Gasping with desperate exertion , she got the canoe into the water , and leapt into it just as he seemed to realise what she was doing . |
| 6 | She wanted to forget all about this man beside her , just as he seemed to have forgotten about her . |
| 7 | This may be caused to some extent by the general abstractness of the language ; but it is also a matter of the kinds of syntactic presentation and complexity that James favours : ( i ) Just as he seems to avoid calling a spade a spade , so James seems to avoid putting first things first . |
| 8 | Then , just when it seemed to have settled , it made a sharp sideways movement , tugging against the halter . |