Example sentences of "seem a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I thought about this and came to the conclusion that it seemed a very good philosophy . |
| 5 | He was living in Redruth at the time and the long drive up to the parsonage seemed a very good place for the test . |
| 6 | And with Karen Parsons in the state she was that evening , there seemed a very real possibility that it would be . |
| 7 | She grunted so hard there seemed a very strong chance she might drop a turd right there and then . |
| 8 | He seemed a very pleasant person but he spoke no Bengali . |
| 9 | It seemed a very odd way of getting better . |
| 10 | It seemed a very odd state of affairs to me . |
| 11 | And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off . |
| 12 | The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill . |
| 13 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 14 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 15 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 16 | I waited , cold and tired , in his room for what seemed a very long time . |
| 17 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 18 | We stood there , all four of us , in silence for what seemed a very long time . |
| 19 | On paper , it seemed a very bankable prospect , based as it was on a successful stage musical by Alan J. Lerner and Burton Lane . |
| 20 | It seemed a very self-sufficient dog . |
| 21 | Staring up at him , searching his eyes , she knew he was right , only there suddenly seemed a very large gap between knowing it and doing it . |
| 22 | It seemed a very artificial idea . |
| 23 | She seemed a very candid person . |
| 24 | She always seemed a very cold sort of person . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We dug the pond because there was n't anything to look at and it seemed a very obvious thing to do . |
| 26 | This seemed a very sophisticated city . |
| 27 | In what seemed a very short time the plane began to come down and bits of northern Italy could be seen below . |
| 28 | He wrote in his Testament not long before he died : " While I was living in sin , it seemed a very bitter thing to look at lepers ; but the Lord Himself led me among them , and I had compassion on them . |
| 29 | They seem a very long time ago now . |
| 30 | Truman was reminded that it was an agreed military estimate that if Indo-China falls , ‘ very likely all of South-East Asia may come under communist domination ’ and , although it might not have seemed a very credible danger , it was pointed out that the Philippines were less than 800 miles from Indo-China . |