Example sentences of "it seemed [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It struck me as odd at the time , and when Harry Collins told me that he had asked for a morning appointment it seemed even odder . ’ |
| 2 | To Constance , it seemed even louder than before . |
| 3 | It was over a year ago but it seemed even longer . |
| 4 | It seemed somehow deeper , as if its roots lay hidden in the past . |
| 5 | It seemed much colder here than out in the open . |
| 6 | It seemed much easier to sit and do nothing , to pretend that he did n't exist , to empty your mind of feelings so that you felt nothing , nothing at all … . |
| 7 | It was less than seventy-two hours since he had heard of the finding of Riddle 's clothes , but it seemed much longer . |
| 8 | She estimated that its body was about twice the size of the shuttle , but it seemed much larger because of the mottled membranes that extended like wings on both sides of the creature , and rippled lazily as it swam through space . |
| 9 | It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die . |
| 10 | So much had happened since — the Marilyn Duxbody fiasco , the Hatherley trip , Pascoe 's death — that it seemed far longer . |