Example sentences of "seemed [prep] [pron] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to me that the discovery of Romans , Celts and Jews by the Greeks and their revaluation of Iranian civilization could be isolated as the subject of these Trevelyan lectures . |
| 2 | It seemed to me that the theatre I wanted to work in from time to time was the British theatre , so I have never contemplated living in America . |
| 3 | It seemed to me that the man I recently left was the only person that I did know . ’ |
| 4 | As I considered the contents of the squadron report , it seemed to me that the probability was that the bodies were those of aircrew from supply aircraft , for there was some suggestion in the report that a Liberator and a Halifax had been lost over the Morvan when ferrying supplies ; but the point is that no proper statement was ever made in regimental records . |
| 5 | It seemed to me that the question she asked had been simmering in her for some time . |
| 6 | The Commissioner states in his report : ‘ Because it seemed to me that the Minister 's letter implied that the NHS had an absolute duty to provide care for the complainant 's father once it became clear that he could no longer meet the nursing home fees , I asked the DoH for clarification of the legal position and invited their general views . ’ |
| 7 | It seemed to me that the swap file should reside on an uncompressed drive to gain maximum speed benefits — Windows can be slow enough without hampering its performance any further . |
| 8 | But abruptly it seemed to me that the moment should have meaning , even if it were to my discredit . |
| 9 | It seemed to me that the world of pop music , which I worshipped , was there to be altered and corrected . ’ |
| 10 | It seemed to me that the house had a look of gentle triumph . |
| 11 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 12 | Much as she liked him , much as she would miss his companionship , it seemed to her that the relationship had reached a dead end . |
| 13 | When she peered through her fingers it seemed to her that the butterfly was quite happy in its warm cage : not a flutter from its four wings as she proceeded carefully along the box-edged paths that led back to the green garden door . |
| 14 | It seemed to her that the world could not possibly contain a more boring room . |
| 15 | It seemed to her that the reason the Jews of Cork got on so well with their Catholic neighbours was because they were actually poles apart . |
| 16 | Something was being born inside them , as if the past and future were coupling to breed a new kind of man , and it seemed to them that the wind was whispering a phrase they had often heard from Bakayoko : ‘ The kind of man we were is dead , and our only hope for a new life lies in the machine , which knows neither language nor a race . ’ … |
| 17 | It seems that the guardian ad litem expressed some reservations about that decision to move the children in advance of the hearing , but by a letter of 24 January the father 's solicitors said that it seemed to them that the view of the guardian ad litem was ‘ quite wrong as a matter of law . ’ |
| 18 | It seemed to him that the spirit of the dead man was very near to him . |
| 19 | When he turned to look , it seemed to him that the hospital was moving away from him like a phantom ship , butting through the September mists . |
| 20 | On visiting Gill 's Lap pine clump , it seemed to him that the sound of the wind in the trees was very similar to the sound of a rushing stream and also to that of a roaring fire . |