Example sentences of "seem [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a week of sitting there , supping in the beer by a kind of osmosis through the atmosphere , and eating solid sandwiches , seemed to have deposited a tiny roll of fat round his waist . |
| 2 | Generally , these cash buyers seemed to have made a fair assessment of their chances , in that they were unemployed or already had great difficulty matching small incomes to their outgoings . |
| 3 | She seemed to have made a rapid improvement in health since I last saw her . |
| 4 | Donaldson side-stepped to avoid two solicitors in conversation , youngish men who seemed to have made a conscious effort to propel themselves into a facsimile of late middle-age . |
| 5 | Those of you who attended this year 's day given by seemed to have gained a lot from it , so what else would you like ? |
| 6 | The steam seemed to have cleared a little and Lucien could see that Walterkin sat up straight against the far wall , his knees raised , his hands dangling between them . |
| 7 | He seemed to have clinched a seventh victory with his partner , Jean-Louis Schlesser , putting the icing on the cake of their shared world championship . |
| 8 | In his writings on the colonial situation in China and India , Marx was puzzled by the fact that , although both these countries seemed to have reached a higher state of civilization than Europe in earlier times , they were in his time being overtaken by Europe , as the colonial conquests showed . |
| 9 | They seemed to have reached a point of no return some time ago . ’ |
| 10 | Vegetables seemed to have reached a record price . |
| 11 | Indeed , it did n't seem quite impossible even to me , as he seemed to have reached a kind of plateau — no better but certainly no worse , free of pain and very happy — often informing me that he was getting stronger every day . |
| 12 | When it was over and they climbed from the cars Danny needed a considerable amount of calming as his excitement seemed to have reached a peak . |
| 13 | By 1987 she and Charles seemed to have reached an all-time low , if not in their marriage , then certainly in the public 's perception of it . |
| 14 | On 25 July the situation seemed to have reached an impasse . |
| 15 | Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter . |
| 16 | She seemed to have lost a shoe , and her dress was not only dirty but torn in several places . |
| 17 | Les and Peg seemed to have uncovered a simple truth which has evaded so many of us . |
| 18 | Her emotions seemed to have undergone a deep sea-change over the last few hours . |
| 19 | This seemed to have become a permanent condition . |
| 20 | More than ever , it seemed to have become a part of her body . |
| 21 | Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs . |
| 22 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 23 | Alexander seemed to have become a decisive proponent of reform . |
| 24 | War seemed to have become an unusable tool of statecraft . |
| 25 | There were only a handful of other people in the library reference section ; the normal air of peace and quiet one would expect in such a place seemed to have become an unnatural silence . |
| 26 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |
| 27 | His meticulous performance slightly surprised her ; there had been moments when they seemed to have achieved a more casual contact , and he could n't be still trying to impress . |
| 28 | Controversy aside , the fact that Dykstra was called upon so often vouched for Rangers ' ascendancy but the Hateley/McCoist goal machine seemed to have developed a mechanical fault . |
| 29 | The incident with the residents from Conway House seemed to have struck a note of rapport between Rachel and David and during the following week their working relationship seemed much less strained . |
| 30 | After about 45 minutes we noticed that the Post Office official , seated in the bucket seat across the fuselage from Dick and me , seemed to have turned a rather sickly white , and he even tried to stand up quickly despite his safety belt . |