Example sentences of "seemed to her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to her as if every hair on her body , every roughness of skin , unevenness of toenail , snagged on the sticky , shiny fibres . |
| 2 | When she saw Andrew it seemed to her as if her heart had stopped beating . |
| 3 | Suddenly it seemed to her as if the whole world wanted to know about every detail of her life . |
| 4 | The sea-gravel seemed to her to be composed of ‘ shattered rubies tinted with mauve ’ . |
| 5 | He seemed to her to be extremely ancient ( he was 35 ) . |
| 6 | The question seemed to her to be doubly hostile , implying both that the Prince was too short and that she was too tall . |
| 7 | The material seemed to her to be a thick heavy silk . |
| 8 | The world beyond seemed to her to be filled with treachery ; treachery to the spirit , abandonment of principle . |
| 9 | This , in spite of resolving not to do it again , not to lower her standards , which playing pop classics against a background noise of trains and pounding feet and chatter , yells and whistles and rival groups , seemed to her to be . |
| 10 | " Well , then , " she continued , with what seemed to her to be the very height of aware sophistication , " why ever did you want to come here on this sort of trip ? " |
| 11 | Alix seemed to her to be both practical and highly intelligent . |
| 12 | All that seemed to her to be like a man writing , a foreigner to Italy , advising other foreigners , a teacher displaying his wisdom to likely pupils . |
| 13 | Molly turned the paper over and found a list of figures prefixed with lire signs and equipped with what seemed to her to be generous allowances of noughts . |
| 14 | Grainne was no longer quite sure that they were real , for the Castle seemed to her to be so brimful of lingering emotions and the resonances of the past that the footsteps might have belonged to the distant past , or the far-off future , or to a world outside Ireland altogether . |
| 15 | Marion decided finally that she 'd start with " Dearest Pete " and work up gradually to " Pete , my darling " because that seemed to her to be the most loving , the most tender , the most romantic : the one with the sound of real love echoing round the saying of it when it was spoken . |
| 16 | It seemed to her to be the nearest thing to rough justice that would ever present itself . |
| 17 | He seemed to her to be too splendid to wash dishes ; even Glyn would not think of it , and Alain seemed to her to be a figure of towering importance , the most masculine man she had ever seen . |
| 18 | He seemed to her to be too splendid to wash dishes ; even Glyn would not think of it , and Alain seemed to her to be a figure of towering importance , the most masculine man she had ever seen . |
| 19 | She followed that up with what seemed to her to be the inevitable question : ‘ Well , are you a virgin then ? ’ |
| 20 | She had worked hard last week , but there seemed to her to be more work than ever landing on her desk this week . |
| 21 | Lubor still seemed to her to be unsure . |
| 22 | Luckily , though , Ven , while well-mannered throughout , seemed to her to be otherwise a shade preoccupied . |
| 23 | It seemed to her like the anus of the entire factory : a black tunnel that extruded the castings , still encased in black sand , like hot , reeking , iron turds , on to a metal grid that vibrated violently and continuously to shake off the sand . |
| 24 | When Patsy had walked up the short avenue and looked at the square house with its creeper and its shabby garden it seemed to her like a house on the front of a calendar . |
| 25 | Hywel seemed to her like some hapless creature in a story , spellbound by despair , made powerless by circumstance , trapped by a ruthless magic without even the faery consolation of glamour , the illusion of delight . |
| 26 | He seemed to her like the kind of man who loved to provoke reaction . |
| 27 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |
| 28 | It seemed to her like an assertion of closeness to the dead Walter that she could not match . |