Example sentences of "seem [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Cindy , when he joined her in the garden , seemed withdrawn and cold . |
| 2 | At first he seemed fumbling and awkward when under cross-examination but the prosecuting counsel said something which annoyed him , and he responded fiercely and eloquently . |
| 3 | The previous year she had produced a lovely baby boy called Tom and despite great efforts to reduce her weight , nothing seemed to work because all the diets left her feeling hungry . |
| 4 | I think you 're suggesting that the local government would do a lot more if the national government would allow it , and I suspect you 're a Labour member of the Oxfordshire County Council and I think that you would point at the Conservative central government as being , if not deliberately anti-women , then the effect of some of it 's policies seemed to indicate that that 's where it 's heading . |
| 5 | This seemed to indicate that those areas with full-time farmers were the most efficient but there were many other factors to be considered . |
| 6 | What was stranger still was that she seemed stressed and worried , and kept raising her wings into the wind and bending forward at it and then letting it lift her off her stand to the top of her cage where she stuck out her talons , hovered for a moment and then flopped inelegantly down again to the bare branch . |
| 7 | After this type of cathartic outburst , no one seemed to reflect that this offender had a determinate sentence and would be allowed out eventually . |
| 8 | Then , just as suddenly , they seemed to remember that this was a serious occasion , they were on their way to a funeral , the funeral of a great man , the chairman , their founder and benefactor , and they fell silent again . |
| 9 | In general terms , where any tax or duty was paid by a citizen pursuant to an unlawful demand , common justice seemed to require that that tax or duty ought to be repaid , unless special circumstances or some principle of policy required otherwise . |
| 10 | Indeed , the logic seemed to require that such punishment should take place in public . |
| 11 | But there were no incidents of any kind , although Bernie 's familiarity with the little girl seemed to grow as each day passed . |
| 12 | At home , money meant food or perhaps , if one had saved a lot , more land , but here the shops were full of the most amazing commodities and getting money at the end of the week seemed to suggest that these things were within one 's reach . |
| 13 | With the Tories moving on to more radical positions , and the Labour Party now much more centrist , logic seemed to dictate that this kind of Alliance supporter should move back to a Social Democratic outlook identical with that of old Gaitskellites . |
| 14 | The people who used this vile slander seemed to believe that any kind of troubled , troubling music , anything introspective or tragic , was self-indulgent wallowing . |
| 15 | Garway was a staunch Royalist , who nevertheless , like his early associate John Vaughan , seemed to believe that constant vigilance had to be exercised to prevent the loss of England 's liberties or the wasting of its wealth . |
| 16 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 17 | Reynolds seemed to realise that such objections could go on for ever , so he said , ‘ Yes . |
| 18 | She seemed to realise that this comment was not exactly reassuring and hastened to make amends . |
| 19 | The social worker regularly assigned to the case seemed to call when most of the children were at school , so he was unable to judge their progress at first hand . |
| 20 | In addition , research on large lexicons seemed to imply that lexicon-based constraints could constrain the identity of a word on the basis of very little phonemic information . |
| 21 | But he was very understanding and , the doctor just seemed to think that that was a natural course I had to go through ! |
| 22 | The one who was born Greek and fluent , had lost his baggage , presumably in transit in London , and wanted action , and seemed to think that young Erlich would do the needful . |
| 23 | On the contrary , he seemed to think that popular art and literature were themselves full of devices which experimentalists were trying to recapture , as if ‘ intellectual montage ’ or ‘ dream time ’ were implicit in folk fables , riddles and jokes . |
| 24 | It seemed to say that all this inconvenience had ended well and she , Mrs Browning , had after all gained more than she had lost . |
| 25 | Only Sara seemed composed and judicial ; looking directly at Gerald she said : ‘ The police have only just started their questioning ; I think we should be very careful about what we say to them . |
| 26 | It was a scene of desperation , but Dahrendorf seemed to feel that this kind of community DIY activity could be a part of the answer to the problem of a permanent and growing rate of unemployment . |
| 27 | I tried to explore the problems Mrs Singh would have in attempting to be a fully participating parent but the educational psychologist seemed to feel that this was a problem common to many Cedars parents . |
| 28 | As such preliminary results seem to indicate that these approaches are safer and quieter than unreconstructed streets , as well as being more widely applicable than the Woonerf-style rebuilding which must be restricted to lightly trafficked streets , the case for their continued application seems to be a strong one . |
| 29 | And most motorists seem to accept that that the cameras are all in a good cause . |
| 30 | People feel that they do not have much of a life , because in their terms , their lives seem unfulfilling and pointless . |