Example sentences of "but it seemed [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it seemed a long time . |
| 2 | I designed the itinerary , of course , for high political resonance , but it seemed a good idea to take in beautiful towns and routes . |
| 3 | God knows why , because I was n't entertaining and I never went in pubs , but it seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 4 | How the British depended on tea — but it seemed a good idea . |
| 5 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 6 | Video re-runs hinted that Dowie had impeded a defender thus giving Quinn the necessary space but it seemed a harsh decision . |
| 7 | I do n't live here , but it seemed the obvious thing to do . ’ |
| 8 | Well , yes , of course it could , but it seemed an odd way of going about things . |
| 9 | Perhaps they had adjusted to the sanitised neutralism of a Stockholm commune , but it seemed an odd life for men who had chosen to become soldiers . |
| 10 | I thought she said , ‘ Sand under my plate ’ , but it seemed an unlikely remark , so I smiled , soothing her like a baby . |
| 11 | I wondered briefly whether my father had a tendency to marry women who would make their children unhappy , but it seemed an unfair reflection . |