Example sentences of "seem to have [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Louise was so animated by now that she seemed to have forgotten that morning 's funeral . |
| 3 | And now , eighteen years afterwards , in a poorly attended North London church of hideous architecture and amid clouds of strong incense , he seemed to have regained that faith . |
| 4 | ‘ Yeah , ’ Lee laughs , ‘ most people in the know seem to have sussed that one . |
| 5 | Mechanical , sliding nut devices never seem to have become that popular in Britain . |
| 6 | The uprising of 1848 gave them an opportunity to alter their status , but they did not take it and by and large seem to have accepted that industrialisation meant inevitable Germanisation . |
| 7 | Erm we perceive no need at the present time for such an exception and the borough council seem to have accepted that . |
| 8 | The authorities seem to have adopted that slogan of the insurance company . |
| 9 | And you see all the beams are chamfered , not so much for decoration but because they seem to have done that according to latest research , done that to take the bark off because it was the bark where the parasites tended to get in . |
| 10 | What a pity you seem to have inherited that from me . ’ |
| 11 | I have seen away supporters being chased up the road into Pleck Park and but erm I think basically a lot of the trouble used to be caused by drink and now they do n't have any drink in the ground they er they , they seem to have cracked that one . |
| 12 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
| 13 | It 's funny , but I seem to have known that little habit for the whole of my life already . |
| 14 | Yet it is George Bush who seems to have adopted that numbing proposition as a personal creed . |
| 15 | With Herbert 's support , John seems to have applied that principle to his own education , even in an ordinary school . |
| 16 | Government seems to have accepted that criticism . |
| 17 | Nobody seems to have challenged that building brick . |
| 18 | They are trying to suggest that erm , somehow this year we 're cutting the police budget , he seems to have forgotten that last year when he was chairman of the police authority , a three hundred thousand pound cut , a genuine cut was made in the police authority budget , budgets were cut to make up to make up to that three hundred thousand , at the discretion of the Chief Constable , and to the credit of Mrs , and her other colleagues in the police committee , virtually no attempt was made to make political capital at that time , instead of which now , when all we 've seen is a request for the Chief Constable to defer proposed new spending , all of a sudden this is presented as a cut . |
| 19 | But , again , no one seems to have considered that as an option ; and if they had , it would have been highly unpopular and , if implemented , its effects slow and perhaps ultimately unsatisfactory . |
| 20 | It is now in favour of three Tridents , but Opposition Members do not seem to have got that point yet . |