Example sentences of "[pers pn] seem to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( She seemed to me to be about eighteen years old , although as we walked along she told me she had five children , all happily married . ) |
| 2 | I looked at Lily She seemed to me to be perceptibly hurt ; and just as another wild idea was beginning to run through my mind , that she really was an amnesiac , some beautiful amnesiac he had , somehow , literally and metaphorically laid his hands on , she gave me what was beyond any doubt a contemporary look , a look out of role — a quick , questioning glance that flicked from me to Conchis 's averted head and back again . |
| 3 | You seem to me to be wasting an awful lot of time . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Now , now , ’ he said , ‘ Let's be a kind , dear girl , your lover wants to get the feel of you , let him , if you 're as sweet as you seem to me to be . ’ |
| 5 | You seem to me to be struggling . |
| 6 | More and more you seem to me to be going together to the village . ’ |
| 7 | Lissa was silent for a moment , thinking , then she said , ‘ She seems to me to be a normally intelligent woman . |
| 8 | In the chemistry I did you seem to me to be terribly empirical , you had an inorganic substance and you had to learn absolute by heart what it did if you put it in water and you heated it and you did this that and the other . |
| 9 | As honest and honourable Russian writers , they seemed to me to be emblematic in some way . |
| 10 | I did n't know any boys , except those I met through my sisters , and they seemed to me to be vain , impolite and almost totally inarticulate . |
| 11 | they seemed to me to be heavy with symbolism but I could n't see anything . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 13 | They seemed to him to be nothing more than soft , huge shapes . |
| 14 | ‘ They seem to me to be drifting that way . |
| 15 | He seemed to her to be extremely ancient ( he was 35 ) . |
| 16 | He seemed to her to be too splendid to wash dishes ; even Glyn would not think of it , and Alain seemed to her to be a figure of towering importance , the most masculine man she had ever seen . |
| 17 | He seemed to her like the kind of man who loved to provoke reaction . |
| 18 | He seemed to me to be showing diminishing interest in the enquiry , turning his tidily brushed head away to look out of the window instead . |
| 19 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 20 | Rereading one before he put it in the envelope , it seemed to him to be ill-organized , to have no coherent theme . |
| 21 | He was also working for the British Council , writing for foreign magazines and attending functions organized by the Anglo-Swedish Society or the Norwegian Institute , as well as seeing American G.I.s stationed in London — it seemed to him on occasions that every American sergeant wrote verse . |
| 22 | Ludens had , as it seemed to him with helpless fascination , seen , in the last days , perhaps more obscurely weeks , his feelings about Irina undergo a transformation . |
| 23 | Every time he heard the sacred name pronounced by this strange voice , Henri thrilled with joy ; it seemed to him like a voice from beyond the grave , something mysterious and superhuman . |
| 24 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 25 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 26 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 27 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 28 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 29 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 30 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |