Example sentences of "it seemed to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Joan that the wedding-ring was burning her finger ; it caught the light , glistering brightly as if wishing to draw attention to the fact that it was embellishing an alien hand . |
| 2 | It seemed to Joan that he was torn betwixt unburdening himself and trying to ignore the issue . |
| 3 | Seated together on a bench seat by a warm hearth , it seemed to Joan that they were isolated from the intrigue and controversy that were presently raging around the royal family . |
| 4 | Greg was still laughing — forcedly , it seemed to Belinda — at a joke that no one else had shared , then abruptly he grabbed his drink from the table beside Faye and crossed the room again . |
| 5 | It seemed to D'Arcy that his head had only just hit the cushion on the settee in Victor 's flat when he was shaken awake . |
| 6 | Sometimes , when she looked at her like that , it seemed to Emmie that she could easily forget what Gran was like when she was well — how she had looked , sitting in the kitchen all last winter , rocking in her old chair and telling them stories and teaching Oliver games to play with her darning eggs . |
| 7 | It seemed to Jane very fitting that he should come from Cleethorpes . |
| 8 | As she walked , it seemed to Jane that the stars looked down , calmly and mockingly , at this speck in the universe , crawling with ants fighting each other . |
| 9 | Looking back , it seemed to Freddie that she had simply wanted him and him alone — as he had wanted her . |
| 10 | It seemed to Daniel that neither of them had bothered to take in , until that moment , the fact , carefully explained to both beforehand , of the other 's presence . |
| 11 | Unlikely though it seemed to students and friends of the scholarly and bespectacled professor , he had at this period worked for what became SOE ( a kind of work for which his precision of mind , excellent memory and linguistic ability pre-eminently qualified him : he contrived among other exploits to smuggle the leader of the Bulgarian Peasant Party out of the country into Turkey in a truck ) . |
| 12 | It seemed to Harry that he had never been so tired . |
| 13 | All of this , it seemed to Harry , was beside the point . |
| 14 | It seemed to Harry that there was nothing he could usefully say to this bewildering and terrifying man , and indeed that he was not required to speak . |
| 15 | It seemed to Llewelyn , watching Gilleis approach , that she had lost flesh sadly in the year of lacking her son , and her rose and white had faded into the pallor of prisoners . |
| 16 | It seemed to Schmidt that even though the recollections made her sad , talking about them at all was the beginning of a means to recovery . |
| 17 | It seemed to Putt that life was a constant battle against debt . |
| 18 | Suddenly it seemed to Honor that a bond was being forged between them . |
| 19 | It seemed to Gazzer that the pressure hammering away inside his skull would crack it open , like the smashed shell of a hatching chick . |
| 20 | It had been given to her in case an emergency arose , but it seemed to Mrs Blakey that the atmosphere which had developed in the house could n't be called an emergency . |
| 21 | It seemed to Carolyn that there must be a vividly speeded up life flitting through the infant 's dreams , as if it skimmed in the air like a bird over the facts of its life and they were reflected as changingly and as unknowingly on its face as the moving bird would be in seas , rivers , lakes , in stagnant puddles on flat roofs , and silted-up canals . |
| 22 | It seemed to Carolyn ( perhaps her memory exaggerated ) that her father never spoke at all . |
| 23 | It seemed to Ruth , what her aunt had long suspected , that to part with loved ones while they are still living , with never a hope of seeing them again , was worse than losing them by death . |
| 24 | The sun shone over everything , sparkling on the water , and what with that and her own tears it seemed to Ruth that the sea was scattered with diamonds . |
| 25 | When he left school , he forgot entirely about the whole business , forgot about it for a couple of decades , forgot until this thin , tired fellow , looking so very much like his old school chaplain , came and hovered in the drive , the epitome , it seemed to Patrick , of the doubting kind of modern Anglican clergyman . |
| 26 | As they surrounded him , eyes red-rimmed and faces glistening from the heat of the flames , their whooping cries added to the pandemonium and it seemed to Owen as if he had already died and retribution for the sins of his life was about to be exacted by Satan 's minions . |
| 27 | It seemed to Kelly that she was trying to catch her eye for some reason . |
| 28 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 29 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 30 | ‘ The Time Travellers took one of them , ’ said Dierdriu , and it seemed to Fergus that an old , never-quite-healed agony was in her voice now . |