Example sentences of "[pron] seemed [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | News about this dynamic activist was sent back to the Gold Coast , and he seemed just the man they needed to organise a political organisation to associate a mass following with the upper-middle-class political elite , who were already restless within the confines of the Burns constitution . |
| 2 | Food , as one of the great sensual experiences is always uppermost in our minds , and at Bristol , amongst new intake it seemed invariably the priority subject . |
| 3 | The weather was so nice that it seemed even the enemy had forgotten us . |
| 4 | HOWEVER , HIS SINGING CAREER STARTED in , of all places , the pop charts : ‘ I was sixteen years old at the time , and at the end of the sixties it seemed just the thing to do . |
| 5 | His nature , which it might be argued he turned into Nature , always desired love and recognition , in a way that most of us do , but it seemed increasingly the environment in which he lived , and more especially the people which he met , denied him that . |
| 6 | Perhaps on another occasion , in another mood , he would have been more sympathetically disposed towards it , but at the moment it seemed merely the repetition , however well-prepared , of a diet he knew only too well . |