Example sentences of "[pers pn] seems to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was interested in how a mind works that is as analytical and calculating as his seems to be . ’ |
| 2 | She seems to be enjoying it . |
| 3 | Her foot ferociously working the pedal , her mouth full of pins , she seems to be constantly warning , or criticising : ‘ How many biscuits is that ? or ‘ You 'd better watch it , young lady , Pat was skinny at your age and now look at her ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Please take notice that I sometimes need to be the real me ’ , is what she seems to be really saying through the way she 's portrayed herself . ’ |
| 5 | She seems to be from a good family , and we want to trace them . |
| 6 | She seems to me terribly unhappy in a way which can make people desperate , spiteful , even wicked . ’ |
| 7 | Since we came here she seems to by trying to talk much more . |
| 8 | ‘ She seems to be getting over it pretty well . |
| 9 | ‘ She seems to be recovering well and is cheerful , able to talk to her visitors , ’ he added . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm happy that she seems to be leading a normal life and we want to keep it that way . ’ |
| 11 | She seems to be almost universally disliked . |
| 12 | She seems to be suitable material for what he wants : her father a murderer and her mother a prostitute . ’ |
| 13 | Although at one point Lear is willing to return to Goneril , since she seems to be allowing him fifty knights , Regan only twenty-five , so that ‘ Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty , /And thou art twice her love ’ ( II.iv.260ff. ) — a quantification of love that would be comic were its effects not so awful — Lear becomes enraged by the two of them , and prefers ‘ To wage against the enmity o ’ th' air' than live with them . |
| 14 | I do not know ; she seems to me to have no human heart left in her . ’ |
| 15 | Now in a queer way , a looking-glass way you might say , she seems to be getting it . |
| 16 | Similarly , when Dorothea exclaims , ‘ Instead of Lazarus at the gate , we should put the pig-sty cottages outside ’ , she seems to be planning to build her model ones within the grounds of the complaisant Sir James . |
| 17 | Dave murmurs something along the lines of how she seems to be coping with it very well . |
| 18 | There is also the consideration that she seems to be flirting with the possibility of committing herself to re-entering mainstream education locally . |
| 19 | ‘ She seems to be worried about him . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ She seems to be getting very good care where she is . |
| 21 | Most of the time , she seems to be asleep — that 's when she 's walking round the place . ’ |
| 22 | arrangements , she seems to be getting more and more |
| 23 | She 's the one who loves to hold gurgling ‘ conversations ’ with you , and you 'll sometimes find she seems to deliberately attract your attention by making noises quite loudly , and then smiles broadly to reward you when you look round at her . |
| 24 | But Jeffrey Katzenberg , chairman of Walt Disney , says : ‘ She seems to be a person who stirs up publicity for herself by attacking her directors and leading men . |
| 25 | But she seems to be doing night shift a lot recently . |
| 26 | Lissa was silent for a moment , thinking , then she said , ‘ She seems to me to be a normally intelligent woman . |
| 27 | In this way she seems to be a very stubborn character . |
| 28 | She seems to be taking all my time . |
| 29 | We 've reached a break in the programme : she seems to be overreacting to an advert for the hot dogs and popcorn on sale in the foyer . |
| 30 | " She seems to be very keen on learning , " she added . |