Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanche found the dishevelled air he always seemed to carry about with him endearing . |
| 2 | Desire was a leaping sheet of flame now , consuming Maria , the erotic furnace their mouths had become only an imitation of an inward eruption of molten passion that seemed to flow outward from the secret heart of her need , enveloping her utterly . |
| 3 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 4 | It seemed to flow out of him easier than anybody else that I 've heard , except maybe Beethoven . ’ |
| 5 | Reith 's domination of the BBC as first Director-General ( i.e. chief executive ) until 1937 is well described as ‘ massive , totalitarian and idiosyncratic , and for many decades the traditions of the BBC seemed to flow directly from his personality ’ ( Curran and Seaton , 1988 , p. 118 ) . |
| 6 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 7 | And yet there was something so powerfully rebuking , and at the same time so unassailable about his figure looming over them that Mr Charles 's two drunken companions seemed to cower back like small boys caught by the farmer in the act of stealing apples . |
| 8 | For most of the time the plaintiffs seemed to miss out on the need to prove their reliance on the accounts and had they addressed this early enough , the case might never have come to court . |
| 9 | I seemed to miss out on all the fun in those days , my spells afloat were few and far between , while ashore at Felixstowe I was very busy as trade in that port was building up rapidly . |
| 10 | She seemed to light up at the idea . |
| 11 | All animosity towards her husband dissolved and a spark of affection for him seemed to light up inside her , as it had in the old days . |
| 12 | Then she thought of going back , through the dark trees , and her stomach seemed to sink down inside her . |
| 13 | It was one of those days when snow fell all day without sticking and the cold seemed to penetrate right to the bone . |
| 14 | His eyes seemed to glide away from her . |
| 15 | Then Julius glanced up at her , and for just an instant Jessamy seemed to see right through the protective shield with which he had surrounded himself . |
| 16 | For just an instant she seemed to see right into his eyes , past the protective barrier that he instinctively put up against intruders . |
| 17 | Erm you seemed to go straight from sort of the , the sociability side into , into a statement of purpose erm and then went back to er how did you come to do business with Friends Provident . |
| 18 | The bang of the younger one 's heart seemed to go right through the earth like thundering horses . |
| 19 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 20 | It seemed to go on for ever , until the far-off staccato bursts of a Uzi cut into the surrealistic scene like a surgeon 's knife . |
| 21 | Broken in pieces and razor-sharp , they seemed to go on for ever . |
| 22 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 24 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 25 | It seemed to go on for ever . |
| 26 | In particular , Marian liked to see the finish of a case when as a solicitor a case ‘ seemed to go on for ever ’ . |
| 27 | The moment seemed to go on for ever , impossibly long-drawn-out . |
| 28 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 29 | After Schloss Hartheim , which seemed to go on for ever , the three of us moved out of her parents ' house and came down here to Munich and its Alpine air . |
| 30 | And one man who seemed to go on for years was Cecil Dunford or " Slap " as he was known , an active man in all his pursuits in the village . |