Example sentences of "[vb past] seem [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dishes he filled seemed indistinguishable to my eye from run-of-the-mill cottage pie except they were rather blacker round the edges than is normal , and they were accompanied by the garnish of a quarter of a raw tomato , two cucumber slices , a sprinkling of cress ( or maybe lawn clippings ) , and a tired , pre-chewed lettuce leaf without which no British pub meal is complete these days . |
| 2 | The annoyances , injustices , and setbacks from which it suffered seem small in retrospect , but they preyed on the minds of its members at the time . |
| 3 | But as the relationship deepened , so a separation between she and her husband came to seem inevitable . |
| 4 | They probably seemed as ridiculous to the boy as they 'd seemed boring to Nevil , who had been right to say they had harmed him with their indulgence and from whom they would willingly now have asked forgiveness . |
| 5 | True , she 'd only glanced through them , had n't read them properly , because to do so had seemed like prying ; but they 'd seemed innocuous enough , just letters from a young girl . |
| 6 | And now he has been put down , made to seem anti-Semitic , by a probable anti-Semite . |
| 7 | It had seemed like madness before ; now it began to seem shameful . |
| 8 | Coughs and colds and minor ailments began to seem poor substitutes for the wounds everybody had been expecting when the bombs fell . |
| 9 | It began to seem impossible that the rock , huge as it was , could contain this labyrinth they were treading . |
| 10 | But a few miles on , the country began to seem wilder , with more clumps of trees , culminating in the distance in what looked like a considerable forest . |
| 11 | It was an act of creative destruction , but in those first few days at the refuge what had seemed positive began to seem rootless and resourceless . |
| 12 | John Paul Jones was less easily discouraged , and much more feared , as he began to seem uncatchable . |
| 13 | It was at this moment , as Franca recalled it afterwards , that the balance suddenly tilted in the other direction , and what had seemed sensible and inevitable suddenly began to seem trivial and irrelevant , and what had seemed impossible became not only possible but essential . |
| 14 | Chatterjee wondered about this as it began to seem more than simply coincidence . |
| 15 | It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy , Syl , now that he was getting older and had less energy , should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me . |
| 16 | Yes , these primary schoolchildren did seem regimented . |
| 17 | Belinda watched her , smiling at first because Faye really did seem pleased about the present , then with increasing anxiety . |
| 18 | The idea of its hurting or not hurting had n't occurred to me before , but now he mentioned it , it did seem preferable that it should n't . |
| 19 | Fortunately , those 600 were the last for those shoes as Nike came round with a pair , but Zarei did seem disappointed at the lack of regular sponsorship . |
| 20 | She did seem better now ; her cheeks were pink , though patchily , and her eyes looked clear . |
| 21 | And I looked at people I passed a bit more , and all of a sudden they did seem nice and smiled back . |
| 22 | The girl really did seem perfect , and she also has some very good references , ’ Laura assured him . |
| 23 | That did seem impossible . |
| 24 | She 'd rather be seen as hopelessly naïve , and she voiced her feelings , suddenly not caring if she did seem that way . |
| 25 | ‘ The notion of tragedy did n't enter my head , ’ she protested , ‘ but it did seem odd for her to break off in the middle of a phone call like that . ’ |
| 26 | He replied that it did seem strange to him too , but that at every stage God — as far as they could discern — had opened the way to do this . |
| 27 | The letter did seem strange . |
| 28 | The substitution did seem strange as I could n't see why Wallace was being taken off and not Deane ( or a defender ) . |
| 29 | Of course , after my husband died , I had to find work that would enable me to look after her , and this did seem ideal . " |
| 30 | It was difficult to tell at that point how many people in the department wanted to be included , but it did seem likely that some would . |