Example sentences of "seemed to have [verb] [det] of " in BNC.

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1 Annie was concerned to see that Elizabeth seemed to have lost much of her sparkle .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 I blinked at Patterson but he seemed to have understood most of it .
5 By the time of Richard 's birth , however , Henry seemed to have overcome both of these difficulties .
6 I seemed to have spent most of my life in hotel rooms where room service wanted money in advance and the roller towels were fixed with a padlock .
7 She grinned , recalling how they seemed to have spent most of the night making love — time and again .
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