Example sentences of "seemed [adv] like a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darwin , with his inherited money , doing little experiments in his garden and studying what we would call ecology , seemed rather like a survival from the eighteenth century : the new way to end arguments about animals seemed to be through chemistry . |
| 2 | With David Dimbleby and Peter Sissons occupying curvy command modules jutting out over a sea of computer screens and flashing lights , it seemed rather like a cross between the deck of the Starship Enterprise and an Italian disco . |
| 3 | Those few days seemed more like a year to me . |
| 4 | ‘ Seemed more like a slap in the face to me , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Seven years ago he 'd gone away , leaving her nothing but the cup to remember him by ; it was so long ago that Crazy Jake , with his wide strange eyes and his queer stories , seemed more like a creature from a dream than a flesh-and-blood father . |
| 6 | Those few short months with Tony seemed sometimes like a dream to her . |
| 7 | She seemed almost like a god to them . |