Example sentences of "only seem to have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reached for his handkerchief and dabbed his forehead again — a cold , clammy sweat that only seemed to have surfaced in the last half an hour . |
| 2 | He only seemed to have had it when he was drunk ; he could n't remember surges of relief , or anything else , for that matter . |
| 3 | Crosby 's acceleration and close control were a frequent worry to Everton on the right but seven minutes before half-time the winger only seemed to have got past Snodin by fouling him . |
| 4 | So far , the tabloids only seem to have picked up on the claim that couples using brain machines together have better sex . |
| 5 | So far , the tabloids only seem to have picked up on the claim that couples using brain machines together have better sex . |
| 6 | Knighthood was not yet a status sought after by the middling and lesser nobility of the south-west , and the rise of new men as milites only seems to have begun in the mid thirteenth century . |
| 7 | That line only seems to have issued two HM Forces tickets , a 1st Class return at 9d , and a 3rd Class at 7d . |
| 8 | Also , habitation only seems to have lasted for a short time , and Aggersborg may never have been finished . |
| 9 | And for the mass of the petty bourgeoisie , which had from the beginning provided a backbone of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the period when , materially , the Third Reich turned to unmitigated disaster only seems to have set in from 1942 onwards . |
| 10 | The almost complete lack of response , one way or the other , from the Masai , only seems to have encouraged these fantasies , because it provided an environment in which fantasy was rarely tested against reality . |