Example sentences of "[pron] seemed the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a letter to Minnie , who seemed the natural recipient of the account she wished to give , she described how — when first she was taken ill Minnie , which I expect you have heard of from Miss Arabel , who I dare say was given a terrible fright as were we all , many despaired of her life but I did not and I am pleased to say my faith was justified . |
| 2 | Her eyes , despite her years , still held their fire and , though her figure had thickened somewhat , to Katherine 's young eyes she seemed the very embodiment of the word regal . |
| 3 | He seemed the very distillation of the forest . |
| 4 | In September 1890 Ellis 's declaration at Bala on behalf of a Welsh legislative assembly made a strong , though transient , impression : he seemed the very embodiment of ‘ Young Wales ’ . |
| 5 | It seemed the Prime Minister was in danger of quite literally hitting the campaign trail when his specially chartered aircraft made a decidedly bumpy landing at Gloucestershire airport near Cheltenham . |
| 6 | It seemed the perfect finish to the best story in modern rock . |
| 7 | I was greatly touched ; it seemed the perfect gift from one writer to another : what had formerly held down his prose would now hold down my verses . |
| 8 | ‘ We are always busy here , and it seemed the right time to start planning for an extension , ’ she said . |
| 9 | That she 'd done what she 'd done — made this Will , that is — not to spite him but because it seemed the right thing . |
| 10 | It seemed the right thing to do , though he could not have said why . |
| 11 | Schellenberg gasped , mainly because it seemed the right thing to do . |
| 12 | I learnt with someone else , did two years and then er that was an accident if you like that I got involved cos somebody wanted me to be involved and and it seemed the right thing at the time . |
| 13 | It seemed the present experiment was being abandoned as ineffective . |
| 14 | ‘ It seemed the only way to avoid a huge argument . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It seemed the only hope at the time , ’ he said lamely . |
| 16 | And the storm went on and on and on ; when finally relief came to the exhausted crews , it seemed the only recourse was to turn tail and head for home . |
| 17 | It seemed the only thing to do . |
| 18 | It seemed the only thing to do in face of what he said . |
| 19 | It seemed the only salvation for a country with a burgeoning population and limited arable land , wholly dependent upon irrigation . |
| 20 | Whatever was supposed to be wrong had never hindered Rosenthal 's career , and it seemed the real reason for Udinese 's calling off the transfer — they signed Argentinian striker Abel Balbo instead — was the level of anti-semitism in the town . |
| 21 | Film was nothing in itself but what had confirmed its worthlessness was that it seemed the exclusive property of a class of showmen who were direct descendants of the old fairground showmen . |
| 22 | We had a date for this afternoon but when I heard about Francis it seemed the decent thing to postpone the arrangement . |
| 23 | It seemed the poor fellow , in the exuberance of his first air flight and the excitement of his history-making mission , had hurried onto the ‘ plane , leaving two mail-bags , both probably full of First Day Covers , in the rest-room at Moose Jaw Airport . |
| 24 | It seemed the obvious answer — she was old , she needed a home , if she was there Clemence could write her books — go off on her trips . |
| 25 | I had always loved walking so it seemed the obvious thing to do . |
| 26 | I do n't live here , but it seemed the obvious thing to do . ’ |
| 27 | As darkness fell there was hardly a soul about , but just before 9pm it seemed the whole village poured out into the street , and there appeared two men carrying shoulder-high the most grotesque straw figure of a man , its eyes glowing in the darkness from torch bulbs hidden in its head . |
| 28 | There was something I did n't tell you at your father 's funeral because it seemed the wrong time , but two days after he died , I received a letter from him . |
| 29 | It seemed the blind girl found living with Boz and his bride very restricting , but due to the bad weather she was not allowed to leave the camp for much of the winter . |
| 30 | It seemed the natural thing to do . |