Example sentences of "seemed to him " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of what the doctors said , it seemed to him probable that the accident had irremediably damaged her brain . |
| 2 | There were so many of them about , and it seemed to him they caused as much trouble to a policeman as burglars . |
| 3 | It seemed to him that the essential Eileen had already receded from her eyes . |
| 4 | When he turned to look , it seemed to him that the hospital was moving away from him like a phantom ship , butting through the September mists . |
| 5 | It seemed to him that he had intercepted some secret communication between them . |
| 6 | The group 's publicity suggests that the issue being dealt with is mental illness , which led a therapist in the audience to say that none of the characters seemed to him to be mentally ill . |
| 7 | It seemed to him that it was all up with the Church of England ’ . |
| 8 | He waited what seemed to him rather an excessive ti me for Catherine , but decided , charitably , that you could n't look as she did without pretty regular attention to the overall effect . |
| 9 | The double-sided nature of the sixteen-year-old boy who arrived in the History Eighth at St. Paul 's among a group of conventionally well-educated youths two years his senior — who seemed to him grimly earnest and thinking only of work and success and speaking in more re fined voices than he was used to — is clearly shown by Thomas 's two attempts at writing fiction , The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans ( 1913 ) dedicated to ‘ My Father and my Mother ’ with its epigraph from Hardy , ‘ But now — O never again ’ , and an unpublished work of ‘ Fiction ’ ( his title ) which he abandoned in the early summer of 1914 . |
| 10 | Except that it seemed to him rather funny . |
| 11 | They seemed to him beautiful , showing up the texture of her skin . |
| 12 | Her smile seemed to him to have been almost aloof , perhaps even disapproving . |
| 13 | But the noises outside still seemed to him to be those of a wood in February . |
| 14 | Hippolytus composed a strange book entitled the Refutation arguing the dependence of a row of Gnostic sects upon a row of pagan philosophers , and finally turning his weapons on Callistus , who seemed to him the abomination of desolation sitting where he ought not . |
| 15 | Although Weinberger opposed it , he did not often do so with force : partly because , it seemed to him , nobody was foolish enough to propose it with much vehemence . |
| 16 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 17 | On education , for example , and speaking as a headmaster , it seemed to him that Qaddafi had written sensible things . |
| 18 | It seemed to him that he was Kurz , in some strange way . |
| 19 | His heart began to make a terrible noise , or so it seemed to him . |
| 20 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 21 | But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality . |
| 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 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |
| 24 | It seemed to him that he at last had a friend . |
| 25 | Murray seemed to him to have a laziness of spirit and a lack of character ; Richard , on the other hand , gave the impression of a great potential traduced by charm . |
| 26 | When in the eighth century the Saxon saint Guthlac penetrated the heart of the Fens to found Crowland Abbey , he was described by the monk Felix of Crowland as encountering demons in the wilderness , which ‘ came with such immoderate noises and immense horror , that it seemed to him that all between heaven and earth resounded with their dreadful cries ’ . |
| 27 | This remark , it seemed to him , was on a par with ‘ Stalin was quite a nice guy , basically ‘ . |
| 28 | It seemed to him that he had come so far in discovering so much about his problem but was unable to bring about any substantial change . |
| 29 | On visiting Gill 's Lap pine clump , it seemed to him that the sound of the wind in the trees was very similar to the sound of a rushing stream and also to that of a roaring fire . |
| 30 | There was nothing else to cause alarm but it seemed to him that every now and then the dark object from which the movement came itself heaved a little , grew larger , and then fell back . |