Example sentences of "seem a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lydia morose seemed a painfully unnatural phenomenon . |
| 2 | They seemed a surprisingly happy crowd and they were not underfed . |
| 3 | ‘ Going to visit my parents in Holloway always seemed a completely natural thing to do , ’ he said . |
| 4 | It seemed a ridiculously important point of decision . |
| 5 | I was always described as the heretic at school , a designation which was theologically accurate enough and did n't particularly disturb me ; it seemed a not unkind acknowledgement of whatever distances I carried with me . |
| 6 | The house I was after was on the south side , that much I knew , but it seemed a pretty standard sort of street with terraced houses down both sides , distinguished only by the colours of the front doors where the residents had actually bothered to renew the paintwork . |
| 7 | Three wickets in four balls seemed a pretty good response to the unkind things written about Malcolm in the press . |
| 8 | It seemed a rather broad question , and one for which Lord John could not think of a specific answer . |
| 9 | It seemed a rather difficult thing to do , somehow , which surprised me , as I had n't realized I still had some atavistic buried fear of him because he was black . |
| 10 | It seemed a singularly unlikely mode of achieving one 's objective . |
| 11 | McLeish thought that it seemed a reasonably sensible plan . |
| 12 | To my young mind it seemed a most unScottish thing to do . |
| 13 | But his speech seemed a curiously formal introduction to what she supposed was some kind of orgy . |
| 14 | Pink gin seemed a wonderfully sophisticated choice ; he had only read about it before . |
| 15 | People bought her lunch and rang her up and sent her birthday cards ; it seemed a particularly cruel joke that one of the few people who really did dislike her should be married to her . |
| 16 | Similarly , in what seemed a particularly unconventional technique at the time , Michel Butor , in La Modification ( 1957 ) , employs a second-person narrative as a means , apparently , of voicing the monologue which Léon Delmont is conducting with himself as he travels from Paris to Rome to join his mistress , explaining to himself the history of his affair and anticipating how it will resolve itself . |
| 17 | In fact I see from the note that accompanied the birthday card ( thank you ) that it seemed a particularly happy visit this time , and that you planned to come home in June ! |
| 18 | None of the Glaswegians regretted making the trip , but a few grumbled about what seemed a ludicrously early chucking-out time . |
| 19 | But , to be honest , Mildred felt that there had been quite enough animal enchantments in the school to last a lifetime , and it seemed a less desperate measure to do a nice , straightforward kidnap where at least you could see exactly what was happening . |
| 20 | The other day , when a new silver dinner service was commissioned for 10 Downing Street , I asked how much silver could be bought for a million pounds , which seemed a suitably round number . |
| 21 | It seemed a very strange perception , since everybody knows that the first thing such people did following privatisation was to double , and even treble , the already generous salaries of themselves and their colleagues . |
| 22 | We were n't really in love , but it seemed a very great deal like it at the time , before we spoiled it ; we both thought we were , and how can you tell for sure when it 's the first time and you 've nothing to compare it with ? |
| 23 | There was a flourish of the saxophone , a twirl and a curtsy from Rose , a rise and a bow from Bernie and a scatter of faint applause from what seemed a very distant audience , and then there were Rose and Bernie almost on top of her , snarling at each other about something , going off into the darkened wings arguing at the top of their voices . |
| 24 | I thought about this and came to the conclusion that it seemed a very good philosophy . |
| 25 | He was living in Redruth at the time and the long drive up to the parsonage seemed a very good place for the test . |
| 26 | And with Karen Parsons in the state she was that evening , there seemed a very real possibility that it would be . |
| 27 | She grunted so hard there seemed a very strong chance she might drop a turd right there and then . |
| 28 | He seemed a very pleasant person but he spoke no Bengali . |
| 29 | It seemed a very odd way of getting better . |
| 30 | It seemed a very odd state of affairs to me . |