Example sentences of "[pron] seemed to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found it hard to understand what he saw in the boys he now surrounded himself with , some of whom seemed to the girls stupid and callow and bad at drawing . |
| 2 | But after they had finished eating ( which seemed to the travellers to take for ever ) , Goibniu sent the other giants out of the room , because he had important business to discuss . |
| 3 | Officials said that , had Labour won , there would have been a period of uncertainty , although Mr Kinnock 's policies had changed and he was no longer the frightening prospect he seemed to the US administration a few years ago . |
| 4 | In spite of its attractions , it seemed to the majority of the committee that the scheme would be unsatisfactory . |
| 5 | It seemed to the Court that a sentence of 18 months ' imprisonment , suspended , was outside the area of sentences which the judge could reasonably have considered appropriate . |
| 6 | It seemed to the Court that the sentencer had used the same mitigating factors twice over ; once to reduce the starting point , and then to justify a further reduction . |
| 7 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 8 | The promise was readily given and gratefully received : so small a thing it seemed to the giver and so great to the receiver . |
| 9 | At first , it seemed to the village gossips that both couples were happy enough . |
| 10 | The Land Campaign , or so it seemed to the Conservatives , threatened to wipe out those gains at a time when the party showed no signs of an electoral recovery elsewhere . |
| 11 | It seemed to the hedgehog that there should be more to it than that . |
| 12 | Blanche shrugged sympathetically , or so it seemed to the sergeant , as if to say , ‘ I understand . |
| 13 | Sally Ward was better able to comfort him than anyone else , yet it seemed to the family that she did little but simply hold his hand . |
| 14 | " The Lord preserveth the simple , " came the Padre 's voice , quite aptly , it seemed to the Collector for he considered himself to be a simple man . |