Example sentences of "seem to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He got better — went back to the Fire Service , ’ she said , but Eileen 's innocent remark seemed to have touched some nerve which made her say bitterly , ‘ He went back to scrimping and saving to keep his horrible wife in comfort in a nursing home . |
| 2 | A way forward seemed to have emerged some decades ago with the school of " facet analysis " developed from the work of Dr S. R. Ranganathan , whose revolutionary Colon Classification is widely in use throughout India . |
| 3 | Many people heard that but only Cecilia seemed to have heard that first single clang as Ernest , her brother , in freeing the rope from the cleat , gave it a tug which caused the bell to spring upwards and fall again . |
| 4 | Anyway she seemed to have swallowed all that about Uncle Walter . |
| 5 | The salesman and Hank , however , seemed to have reached some agreement and strolled towards the office , where fat old Josh presided over the financing section with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender . |
| 6 | What excited them even more was that , surprisingly , no one seemed to have followed this idea up ( and indeed no one had , as B. Mamyrin confirmed in 1989 ) . |
| 7 | Annie was concerned to see that Elizabeth seemed to have lost much of her sparkle . |
| 8 | Seb thought she looked thinner and seemed to have lost much of the air of confidence that had always been so much a part of her . |
| 9 | Susan was quite well now ; at least , she had recovered from the effect of nursing their father through that long , heart-breaking illness , but she seemed to have lost all her spirit . |
| 10 | The train was still moving between stations but the twins seemed to have lost all interest in knowing how long it took and relaying this information to the rest of the carriage . |
| 11 | But a small part of her cried that Ace seemed to have lost all sense of kindness and decency as far as she was concerned . |
| 12 | She wanted to move away from him , but she seemed to have lost all sensation in her limbs . |
| 13 | She seemed to have lost some sense that events could be controlled or hopefully directed . |
| 14 | It was as though she were in some sort of a trance , a pallid undertone to the sun-dark skin , the nostrils of that straight nose slightly flared ; even the jaw seemed to have lost some of its determined thrust . |
| 15 | I blinked at Patterson but he seemed to have understood most of it . |
| 16 | His eyes seemed to have gathered more gold from somewhere … |
| 17 | ‘ Terminator 2 ’ is the most expensive film yet made — and has prompted worries about the health of Carolco , even though pre-sales to distributors seemed to have covered all the film 's costs . |
| 18 | By the time of Richard 's birth , however , Henry seemed to have overcome both of these difficulties . |
| 19 | He seemed to have missed all that somehow . |
| 20 | I seemed to have missed some mail lately , my sister kept asking me whether I had n't received her letters . " |
| 21 | Besides cooking , he seemed to have done most things , course after course . |
| 22 | In her company he seemed to have shed some English drilling and become more American . " |
| 23 | That seemed to have exhausted all permissible topics of conversation . |
| 24 | Jose Miguel had been his usual model of self-effacing but steely efficiency and he seemed to have conjured another two birdies from the course without anyone noticing , although he too had dropped one shot . |
| 25 | Comprehensivization , he muttered to himself , seemed to have had much the same effect on the middle-middle class in England as racial integration in schools had had on similar people in the States . |
| 26 | The heat was fierce that June — 102 degrees in the shade at one time — but Mrs Browning went out in it and seemed to have forgotten such scorching sun had once enervated her to the point of collapse . |
| 27 | I thought he was going to say , I 'm not saying anything more in front of him , but no , he seemed to have forgotten all about Vern . |
| 28 | Since their arrival at ‘ La Felicità ’ she seemed to have forgotten all the social life she was missing in England and devoted her energies to the narcissistic process of going brown , measuring each day the contrast between her exposed wrist and the satisfying white band left beneath her watch-strap . |
| 29 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 30 | Louise was so animated by now that she seemed to have forgotten that morning 's funeral . |