Example sentences of "[vb past] to them [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This courting dance seemed to them a grotesque parody . |
| 2 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 3 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 4 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 5 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 6 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 7 | 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 . |