Example sentences of "i seem [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friends all seem to be organised but all I seem to do is scream at the children and be in a muddle . |
| 2 | I reach for Lucker and all I seem to do is annoy him . |
| 3 | The children fight a lot , wo n't do as they are told , I never get any time for myself and all I seem to do is to wash , clean and pick up after them . |
| 4 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 5 | I seem to remember being told that the latest policy is to turn water cannon on the nurses ; that does not strike me as the most helpful approach . |
| 6 | And , although I did go home for a few holidays , most I seem to remember were spent elsewhere with friends or at special holiday camps that some of the other boarders went to . ’ |
| 7 | Luckily , however , I managed to hold on and we got on to her bed , which I seem to remember was covered with a plastic sheet . |
| 8 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 9 | I seem to have been given the freedom |
| 10 | I seem to have been blathering on and on . |
| 11 | I seem to have been bombarded by your curiosity right from the start . |
| 12 | Yet so far I seem to have been treating nothing worse than chicken pox and ‘ flu . |
| 13 | ‘ Unfortunately ’ says the agent , ‘ I seem to have been outvoted . ’ |