Example sentences of "seemed [prep] [pron] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to me that each person living in a house needed his or her special place , a sort of perch . |
| 2 | It seemed to me that all surfers aspired to the condition of divinity . |
| 3 | Moreover she breathed out power also ; one felt it in the air as one feels a thunderstorm before it breaks , and it seemed to me that this power was not quite human , that it drew its strength from afar and dwelt a stranger to the earth . |
| 4 | Sometimes it seemed to her that old age reduced anxiety . |
| 5 | As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red . |
| 6 | A British Rail quality manager and former Sunderland nut , he changed allegiance in 1980 when it seemed to him that some Roker players were becoming too mercenary . |
| 7 | It seemed to us that two nettles had to be grasped : the first was to decide whether divorce law should attempt to remedy the ‘ injustice ’ meted out to ‘ innocent ’ spouses who are divorced against their will . |