Example sentences of "made [pers pn] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous . |
| 2 | To some observers , the new generations who were born into this environment appeared stunted and uncouth ; their cheap clothing and strange variations on the English language made them seem like another species , almost subhuman . |
| 3 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 4 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 5 | He wore the same sombre clothes as Lever , a wine red pau that made them seem more like clerks than the heirs to great Companies . |
| 6 | Facially the two men were very different , Kustow 's face blunt , Lever 's hawkish , but the similarity of dress and the starkness of their haircuts made them seem like brothers , or members of some strange cult . |
| 7 | Nowadays , of course , we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious . |
| 8 | The trappings of a domestic servant made her seem like a dove clothed in starling 's feathers . |
| 9 | But seen face to face , even in the informality of her own house , the absence of a spark of sexuality and , he sensed , a deep-seated reserve , made her seem less feminine and more formidable than he had expected , and she held herself stiffly as if repelling invaders of her personal space . |
| 10 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 11 | Her innocent pleasure made her seem even — more vulnerable and he sighed inwardly . |
| 12 | Sylvie had raved , raved with that undertow of intensity which always made her seem to be speaking the truth . |
| 13 | Somehow , too , because it did not quite fit her and hung gauchely in parallels and was kept with such care , spots of dirt sponged out and the dress frequently brushed and pressed , it made her seem , touchingly , much younger . |
| 14 | To me it made her seem somehow obvious . |
| 15 | Her smile in greeting made her seem quite genuinely delighted to meet him . |
| 16 | For weeks it threatened to be a cesspit of scandal , and not to be outdone the controversial English striker Stan Bowles , whose behaviour over the years made him seem like a surrogate Scot , admitted that he frequently took drugs . |
| 17 | Breeze laughed , for this petulant little outburst made him seem more human . |
| 18 | Often he acted in ways that made him seem like a child demanding to be looked after . |
| 19 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 20 | It made him seem weak to her robust northern eyes . |
| 21 | Despite her embarrassment , it made him seem even more attractive . |
| 22 | Suddenly Peter flushed , which made him seem much younger than he was . |
| 23 | Connon stared down at the young man in the picture as if he was looking at a stranger and trying to analyse what made him seem vaguely familiar . |
| 24 | In fact , she liked it ; it made him seem more human . |
| 25 | The mask made him seem menacing , and she suddenly had the sensation that with Lucenzo she was playing with fire . |
| 26 | And that sometimes made him seem a little remote . |
| 27 | It made him seem altogether too human , and the safest thing for her to do would be to remember that this man was very nearly the devil incarnate . |
| 28 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 29 | He made it seem as if he had gone to New Orleans drunk , got sober and wrote a book . |
| 30 | He made it seem important and Special . |