Example sentences of "seem too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed too good to pass up . |
| 2 | It seemed too good to be true — I was going to Scarborough . |
| 3 | It seemed too good to be true and when Robyn had said all that was necessary she sat back and eyed him with suspicion . |
| 4 | It seemed too good to be true . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Four seemed too many and two not quite enough ! |
| 6 | until they seemed too many to be counted . |
| 7 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 8 | The few areas which had escaped collectivization because they seemed too poor were now to be brought into line . |
| 9 | But to their right the ditch which bordered the canal was still lush with its summer greenness , its grasses thick over the split tyres , discarded mattresses and scraps of clothing rotting in its depths , and the torn and laden boughs of the willows dropped their thin leaves on to a surface which seemed too oily and stagnant to suck them in . |
| 10 | Neither of them , however , gave any sign , and indeed Reni seemed too preoccupied by his grief to give other matters much thought . |
| 11 | The rope seemed too slender to tow the forty-foot barge , piled high with coal or timber ; but it would glide by , scarcely breaking the still surface of the water . |
| 12 | He seemed too strong , too self-contained . |
| 13 | Some were difficult because they seemed too controlled , or controlling . |
| 14 | The issue seemed too hot to handle for Andrew Neil , Sunday Sport boss David Sullivan , Anne Robinson , Oliver Reed and Jaci Stephens , but Paul Raymond , pornographer and Soho publican replied . |
| 15 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 16 | It seemed too strange to believe . |
| 17 | The huge kitchen suddenly seemed too crowded . |
| 18 | Suddenly the room seemed too crowded , and he stood up and glared at them all . |
| 19 | He seemed too exhausted even to speak or move his eyes . |
| 20 | They seemed too exhausted to take much in , apart from one little girl who understood very well . |
| 21 | Not a houseman — he seemed too confident to be a mere houseman . |
| 22 | Her legs seemed too weak to carry her back upstairs to the sanctuary of her turret room . |
| 23 | And when they seemed too beguiling , all she had to do was think of Victoria , and Victoria 's dress account , and Victoria riding with him , and the woman he was meeting tonight — ten to one that was Victoria too . |
| 24 | The foal 's legs still seemed too long for its body and it still was not sure where the four of them were going , but this did not deter it from frisking about . |
| 25 | The Annual Conference was held on 11 March — Peter considered going but the one-day rate , at £50 plus , seemed too expensive to warrant it . |
| 26 | Some things seemed too intimate to share , and she would have to speak of secrets which were not her own . |
| 27 | Her body seemed too languorous to react quickly to the commands her brain was issuing . |
| 28 | He seemed too stunned to speak before snorting with mirth again . |
| 29 | It was just that everything seemed too close , like staring at a light bulb . |
| 30 | I wanted to be in Beirut for the anniversary , to be near John , but the trip seemed too daunting , too frightening . |