Example sentences of "it [adv] seemed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It suddenly seemed to him to have been lull of long damp nights sleeping under the stars , desperate fights with trolls , city guards , countless bandits and evil priests and , on at least three occasions , actual demigods — and for what ? |
| 2 | I think that , I do n't know , it just seemed as if you were looking at me like |
| 3 | Some of the cognoscenti had recognised why he was wearing the deaf-aid , but for the majority , it just seemed to be part of the character , justified by a couple of new lines . |
| 4 | I do n't know , of course , but it just seemed to me … well , and then there were the clothes . ’ |
| 5 | Oh no , no , no , not at all af after the war work it , it just seemed to er no one ever seemed to get any be interested in flying as they were pre-war then , or they probably that they had cars and they could get about more you know to other outlying places like Pentiford in Wolverhampton |
| 6 | It just seemed like an interesting challenge . |
| 7 | It 's the typically cool thing , but it just seemed like a road to nowhere . |
| 8 | ‘ It just seemed like a ridiculous idea but I thought it was a nice place to go and have a look around , ’ he admits . |
| 9 | I never did , but when it came up for auction , it just seemed like it would make her smile , and the money was going to a good cause , too . |
| 10 | It was stupid — but it just seemed like the last straw , Tom , and what can be done ? |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose so , but it just seemed like a bit of harmless fun — and you know , Irish , you 're beautiful when you 're angry . ’ |
| 12 | It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation . |
| 13 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |
| 14 | Her theory had been proved , yet it still seemed like a fairy story . |
| 15 | Luce debated stopping and having a showdown but , chickening out , she told herself it hardly seemed worth the hassle . |
| 16 | She knows she could have pointed out how troops from India fought alongside the British in the war , or that she was born in that far-off , exotic setting , Middlesbrough General Hospital , and was indeed just on her way home but he was drunk as well as ill-informed , so it hardly seemed worth it . |
| 17 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 18 | Although Piers Place was the most beautiful house I had owned or ever would own , it always seemed to be in need of structural repairs , there was a large attic floor which we did n't need ourselves and yet were disinclined to furnish for renting out , and the traffic on the main road outside seemed to increase with every year . |
| 19 | But it always seemed to me more important from L.G. 's point of view than from ours . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , it always seemed to me that the Cathars had got pretty close to it , ’ he said . |
| 21 | He was a tall , burly man , in whose company , it always seemed to Rose , Steve looked like a prisoner . |
| 22 | Erm so it always seemed as if something else was the trigger for friendships . |
| 23 | It always seemed like a momentary aberration . |
| 24 | ‘ It always seemed like a pretty big deal to me , ’ he said . |
| 25 | It also seemed as if somebody up there had decided to have a laugh at the expense of an arguably premature rave by yours truly . |
| 26 | However , it also seemed at this stage that science depended on uniformity and invariance . |
| 27 | There seemed little point in launching into the saga of her engagement , and it also seemed like an ideal opportunity to tell Piers obliquely that she was n't emotionally involved with him . |
| 28 | To H. C. Wyld , for example — surely the best historian of English — it probably seemed to be common sense to believe that RP was the most important accent of Modern English , and that a historical account of English pronunciation should therefore be , in effect , a history of RP . |
| 29 | While Dave was still a problem , it now seemed to Mr E remediable . |
| 30 | Indeed , it now seemed to be the case that men did not marry women unless they had had sexual relations with them beforehand . |