Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] always seemed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They passed lock-up stores , splendid Georgian terraces , and the stern front of St Mary 's Church with its massive columns which had always seemed to Boxer like the fingers of an upraised hand ordering him to halt , enter and say a prayer . |
| 2 | She was unaware of any undue familiarity between herself and her cousin ; they seemed as they had always seemed since childhood . |
| 3 | They have always seemed to me either embarrassing or insincere . ’ |
| 4 | It has always seemed to me rather sad that almost any move from beat duty is regarded as a promotion . |
| 5 | It has always seemed to me that in pupils ' day to day work and more specifically in their exercise books , we have a reasonable body of evidence which can be evaluated , probably in the school , moderated , probably by other teachers and headmasters and allowed to count in some way towards the success of pupils . |
| 6 | One of the great mysteries of the Bible , it has always seemed to me , was how Daniel managed to interpret the writing on the wall at Belshazzar 's impious feast . |
| 7 | Great Escapes ' Paul Scrimshaw explained : ‘ It has always seemed to us that as long as the hoteliers play the game fairly then all parties have received a reasonable benefit . ’ |
| 8 | It has always seemed to us better to face our competition on the basis of our chemical abilities , where we are undoubtedly strong . |
| 9 | The translator described ‘ the party ’ as the collective hero of Serge 's ( 1978 ) Conquered City , but it has always seemed to me that in both that work and in Birth of Our Power ( 1977 ) the great proletarian cities of Petrograd and Barcelona are actors in their own right . |
| 10 | And it has always seemed to me that at that moment Wes walked back into his old life . |
| 11 | It has always seemed to me a pity that Evelyn Waugh , the one person present with a gift for writing , was blind to the historical significance of the occasion , impercipient of this last manifestation of Abyssinia 's traditional pageantry . |
| 12 | It has always seemed to me that people vote in a new government not because they actually agree with their politics but just because they want a change . |
| 13 | Lifelong bogeys became jokes ; the long tunnel of what had always seemed to her exaggerated behaviour and elaborate unorthodoxy had a light at the end of it , the light of a life with Peter . |