Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anchovy-paste sandwiches , scones and Dundee cake seemed to me an ample repast , particularly as I had a nervous , irrational distaste for eating the food of Syl 's mother in her house . |
| 2 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 3 | It was a rough crossing , and most people were rather quiet , and a few were vomiting over the railings and indeed all over the upper-deck , but Clara had never felt better , and the rough lurching seemed to her an added attraction . |
| 4 | Strange as it may now seem , the primacy of Canterbury seemed to him an immovable feature which guaranteed the firmness of the whole structure . |
| 5 | If ‘ fascism ’ appeared to them an appropriate name for their enemy , then perhaps comfortable historians half-a-century later should hesitate before declaring them wrong . |
| 6 | To the day of his death on the guillotine in January 1793 France remained to him an unknown land . |