Example sentences of "seemed [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 2 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 3 | Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world . |
| 4 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 5 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
| 6 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hippolytus composed a strange book entitled the Refutation arguing the dependence of a row of Gnostic sects upon a row of pagan philosophers , and finally turning his weapons on Callistus , who seemed to him the abomination of desolation sitting where he ought not . |
| 10 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |