Example sentences of "seemed to [pers pn] [prep] be the " in BNC.

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1 Rich and protean , his word-seam seemed to me to be the very fount of knowledge itself , a mulchy conceptual bed which might be sown merely by the fact of being listened to , thus engendering all ideas for all time .
2 " Well , then , " she continued , with what seemed to her to be the very height of aware sophistication , " why ever did you want to come here on this sort of trip ? "
3 Marion decided finally that she 'd start with " Dearest Pete " and work up gradually to " Pete , my darling " because that seemed to her to be the most loving , the most tender , the most romantic : the one with the sound of real love echoing round the saying of it when it was spoken .
4 It seemed to her to be the nearest thing to rough justice that would ever present itself .
5 She followed that up with what seemed to her to be the inevitable question : ‘ Well , are you a virgin then ? ’
6 There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides .
7 In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him .
8 As the intervention system remains entirely in place , and as the Community has not decided to try to make savings by reforming the system to make it less attractive , it seemed to us to be the wrong way to tackle the problem .
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