Example sentences of "[pers pn] seem a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith and Hogan , Criminal Law , 6th edn , Butterworth , 1988 , 559 n6 , comment : " [ T ] his seems a surprising decision as it would surely astonish bankers to learn that by issuing such cards they are allowing their customers to borrow by way of overdraft to an unspecified amount " ( their emphasis ) . |
| 2 | Linda Bloomfield , chief executive of Merseyside TEC , said : ‘ Businessmen 's time is in short supply so taking the show to them seemed a logical idea . ’ |
| 3 | She seemed a thoughtful person , someone of like nature to Mary Smith , but with much more up top . |
| 4 | She seemed a typical product of her upper-middle-class background in Westchester County . |
| 5 | She seemed a brazen hussy ! ’ |
| 6 | Because she seemed a nice woman and had had a nice mother , with whom she seemed to get on well . |
| 7 | He says : ‘ She seemed a happy person on the surface but underneath she had been deeply affected by her parents ’ divorce . ’ |
| 8 | She seemed a charming girl to me . |
| 9 | A pulse of light slid over Fincara 's face , and the long green eyes were so alight , so blazingly concentrated , that she seemed a different woman . |
| 10 | ‘ You seem a little tense . ’ |
| 11 | You seem a happy lot around here . |
| 12 | Though at the beginning , she seems a sad character , with whom life has dealt harshly , you soon begin to realise that she is a heartless and conniving woman . |
| 13 | ‘ She seems a good ship . ’ |
| 14 | This Mrs Melburn , the parson 's wife … she seems a motherly figure , in a way , but that bit ’ — she pointed to the page of a letter that was on the table — ‘ that bit tells you why they came this way . ’ |
| 15 | She seems a little well , odd . |
| 16 | ‘ Lately she seems a little low in spirits . ’ |
| 17 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 18 | They seem a natural outgrowth of civil-rights law , and they are increasingly popular ; but judges are wary of them . |
| 19 | He seemed a sinister character with his long snout and bony body , alert , watchful , suspicious . |
| 20 | ‘ He seemed a kindly person , not in the least severe . |
| 21 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 22 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 23 | The last time he called on us after his exhibition at Keighley he seemed a new man , with a delight in having found himself in his painting and amazement that it also gave pleasure to so many others . |
| 24 | Wattana had beaten Parrott in four major events this season and he seemed a good bet to improve this record when he established a 2–0 lead . |
| 25 | He seemed a useful source where Dysart 's Oxford days were concerned . |
| 26 | For a while he seemed a shy figure hovering on the borders of a conversation , longing to take part in it , to belong . |
| 27 | The next evening my father was brought home in a German car , but he seemed a broken man . |
| 28 | He seemed a courtly gentleman with the inbred manners of a diplomat . |
| 29 | Never mind , it seemed a good story at the time . |
| 30 | And it seemed a good laugh . |