Example sentences of "seem [to-vb] every [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He backed away , knowing he was invisible on the darkened landing yet fearful of the pale eyes that seemed to penetrate every shadow with their knowing stare . |
| 2 | He looked at her with hard eyes that seemed to see every thought she had ever had . |
| 3 | At one and the same time he seemed to accept every word and yet to be stricken with fear . |
| 4 | I met a man in the glen who seemed to know every spot , and gave me the Gaelic names of all the corries . |
| 5 | With mind-blowing slowness Paige felt the same hand move upwards again to close over her breast with a possessiveness that seemed to encompass every atom of her being . |
| 6 | He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at . |
| 7 | They put erm tremendous pressure on our line but we seemed to repel every attack and erm held firm . |
| 8 | He seemed to grudge every word he spoke . |
| 9 | In those early days they were expected to go to chapel every morning ; bells seemed to announce every change in the timetable . |
| 10 | The tart smell of burned crops seemed to taint every breath they took , despite the filters both wore . |
| 11 | Night had invaded the heavens , closing around the waxworks like a black fist as impenetrable as the umbra that seemed to fill every inch of the museum . |
| 12 | She seemed to articulate every consonant as she spoke . |
| 13 | Then he seemed to recognize every feature of the place , right down to the boulder which had sheared the wheel off the property wagon , on that horrible night . |
| 14 | He answered the door himself , and she was painfully aware that once again his eyes seemed to study every part of her . |
| 15 | He asked about your life , and seemed to savour every moment of your conversation . |
| 16 | Tenison busied himself with gathering up plans and files , which seemed to litter every surface . |
| 17 | Lord Wyatt , the Master , seemed to take every check and every lost line as a personal affront . |
| 18 | I mean there have been the usual number of pollution incidents and they seem to increase every year , er and a lot of those to deal with er as you say , I think one of the things which is , which is good is that public consciousness has been raised and people are much more aware of what they drink and what 's in their rivers . |
| 19 | Looking back over this chapter I am struck by the dreadful pitfalls which seem to beset every step which the sociologist might contemplate taking in documentary research . |
| 20 | We seem to exert every effort to make the least of the most . |
| 21 | Perhaps not though , I seem to fancy every man I meet fancies me at the moment . |
| 22 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ His faculties seem to expand every day , ’ Dorothy wrote in early March ; ‘ he composes with much more facility than he did , as to the mechanism of poetry , and his ideas flow faster than he can express them . |
| 24 | I seem to have every form the Inland Revenue has ever published at the moment . |
| 25 | Joy seems to fill every part of Paul 's life . |
| 26 | Your government did n't have any courage then to back up it 's own man , and force through some changes , and so I do n't know what your policy is , it seems to change every couple of years . |
| 27 | Finally , after some ‘ agonizing ’ , he agreed ‘ on the grounds ’ , as he wrote in the introduction to the catalogue , ‘ that I have a passion for Italy , her people , her countryside and the way in which art quite naturally seems to invade every aspect of life , thereby producing an atmosphere that is totally irresistible ’ . |
| 28 | So , despite seeming to lose every argument , the CEGB probably came close to achieving its original goal . |