Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This new assessment of his home marked an important casting off , a kind of liberation , and if in later years Ottery remained symbolically important to Coleridge , that was only because his recollections of the shaping years of childhood all seemed to gather at the town . |
| 2 | It seemed to work at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ But we seemed to freeze at the start , ’ conceded Nicholl . |
| 4 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 5 | They seemed to bend at the knee , setting their feet apart so that they could never be off balance when they moved . |
| 6 | On the other hand , the ordinary and the extraordinary seemed to coincide at the same point . |
| 7 | Serfdom seemed to lie at the root of many of their own frustrations , to preclude progress , be it economic , social , or political . |
| 8 | When Luke called her heart seemed to expand at the look of admiration that slipped over his face as his gaze took in her simple cream suit in thick , crunchy lace , the severe black camisole she wore beneath it , but he merely murmured , ‘ Punctual as always . |
| 9 | His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics . |
| 10 | They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners . |
| 11 | An interim experiment took place in 1981 with tubes of brine shrimp , which are sensitive to changes in the magnetic field : they seemed to cluster at the end of the tube which was nearest the stones . |
| 12 | And somehow all her own reservations and objections seemed to evaporate at the same time . |
| 13 | seemed to hurt at the sight . |
| 14 | She seemed to shudder at the very thought . |
| 15 | Holly heard him shift on his bunk and the mattress seemed to belch at the movement . |
| 16 | Sure , there are some A&R departments who seem to look at the money making potential first and last , and others with more artistic temperaments . |
| 17 | It is clear that computer designers need the chemists ' understanding of the physical and chemical properties of silicon and the III-Vs and the rules under which they seem to operate at the atomic and molecular levels . |
| 18 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 19 | I would really love to have long hair but it never seems to grow at the back , only at the fringe ! |
| 20 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 21 | The refusal is as understandable as it is naive , but seems to constitute at the same time what amounts to an abnegation of intellectual curiosity about human needs . |
| 22 | The beginning of each sentence in the middle of the poem seems to start at the end of the previous line which has the effect of making the reader almost experience the same sort of speed the train is going through . |
| 23 | Though most merchants say it is too early to come up with a firm idea of the trade , the initial reports on quality suggest some low nitrogens and good bushel weights , at least for the Puffin that seems to predominate at the moment . |
| 24 | This seems to strike at the very heart of many of the cases which are made against firms of accountants . |
| 25 | It did not seem to matter at the time . |
| 26 | But although spots may seem to improve at the beginning , post-holiday , you may well find you are getting eruptions . |
| 27 | He was lying in the space between the two large central examination tables , face downwards , his left hand seeming to claw at the floor , his right arm hunched beneath him His legs were straight . |