Example sentences of "[pron] seemed like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manager himself seemed like a distant god to be both wondered at and feared . |
| 2 | I felt safe — she seemed like a demure young woman . |
| 3 | When Albert missed the child most urgently , the refusal of money for him seemed like a moral tactic to take him away forever . |
| 4 | They seemed like a great group of standing stones upon a misty moor and he wanted to step forward and go to where they were . |
| 5 | I said he seemed like a nice kid , and Hart said : ‘ The story is that he killed somebody , when he was thirteen years old . ’ |
| 6 | He says that he seemed like a nice chap . |
| 7 | I 'd met Laura 's husband only for a minute or two , but he seemed like a regular guy . |
| 8 | He seemed like a different person , much older , worn and harried . |
| 9 | We just were n't used to driving in the country then , it seemed like a long way from |
| 10 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 11 | It seemed like a thousand years had lapsed since ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ and how refreshing it was , how exciting to place the record clumsily on the turntable for the first time to be faced with the full frontal body blow that is the title track . |
| 12 | A bank of sand separated between the sea and an inner expanse of shore , in which the bed of Rossie Burn was pillowed among undulating slopes clad with a profusion of sea-grasses ; at full tide it seemed like a fresh-water lake , at ebb tide but a marshy waste , only the stream meandering along its time-worn groove . |
| 13 | It seemed like a small , sweet miracle . |
| 14 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 15 | ‘ The hotel bar was closed and we were all famished so it seemed like a good idea to trek down to the local ‘ pub ’ to search out a few sarnies , ’ says Gedge . |
| 16 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 17 | It seemed like a good idea to ask for ‘ guinea pigs ’ to test the diet . |
| 18 | Becoming entangled in the web you have woven ; after all , ‘ it seemed like a good idea at the time ’ . |
| 19 | The switchboard answered quickly and it seemed like a good omen . |
| 20 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 21 | Then , there 's never been a shortage of contributions for London 's musical guidebook ; have all helped to flesh out its pages , along with ‘ Kings Cross ’ , a song that the Pet Shop Boys wrote ( a ) ‘ Because it 's the London terminus you reach if you come down from the North-East ’ ; ( b ) Chris Lowe lived there ; and ( c ) ‘ It seemed like a good title about people waiting . |
| 22 | In the meantime , my thirteenth birthday was coming up , and it seemed like a good time to revive my request for the perfect present : a bird of prey . |
| 23 | Justifying my needs was difficult , but with retirement looming up it seemed like a good idea . |
| 24 | The picture could be executed by a company called Scanachrome in which I already had some interest and it seemed like a good opportunity to get involved with the process . |
| 25 | She concedes , ‘ We are aware that a market for these Japanese artists does not yet exist , but it seemed like a good moment . |
| 26 | ‘ Yeah , it seemed like a good idea at the time … ’ |
| 27 | It seemed like a good option — a chance for chaos . |
| 28 | It seemed like a good argument for eliminating me . |
| 29 | ‘ Because it seemed like a good idea at the time . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It seemed like a good deal so we went down to Rufford to check the company out . |