Example sentences of "seem [adj] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people seemed friendly to him as if he often went there . |
| 2 | As a small boy I recall a very old gamekeeper ( at least , he seemed old to me at the time ) talking of gypsies having tame stoats in captivity . |
| 3 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 4 | Her face seemed puffy to her as if tears had been drenching it while she had been unconscious . |
| 5 | They seemed expensive to her at nineteen shillings and elevenpence but the small boy loved them . |
| 6 | You see , all the things which at the moment seem strange to you about it become every day normality after a bit , so that it 's untrue to give you an answer in terms of the lack of space or the lack of change or the lack of food or any of the other things which make this so different from ordinary life . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Competitions now seem derisory to me after the ascent of a route of this scale ’ . |
| 8 | It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer . |
| 9 | I 'll probably wish I 'd never mentioned the matter , but it seems necessary to me at the moment , so there it is . |
| 10 | The pressure to produce a male heir was ever-present and there was Frances ' growing realization that a lifestyle which had seemed urbane to her in her youth was , on mature reflection , dull and uninspiring . |
| 11 | In the French class nowadays the important thing is to SPEAK French — the sound of your voice in French may seem strange to you at first but you have a go right away and you will see what fun it can be . |
| 12 | " Does anything seem strange to you in the scene ? " |