Example sentences of "to i [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That seems to me a better way of spending Sundays — among my family .
2 It seems to me a definite kind of immortality both to be remembered with great affection and to give that feeling ( which I and so many friends have ) that we ca n't believe he has died .
3 ‘ She has proved herself to me a mere Jilt ’ , he told his diary .
4 As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid .
5 The an the result of getting the quotient and by the time you get to looking at those you 'll integration 's hard and you will not ever say again what you said to me a long time ago that you thought integration was a lot easier than differentiation .
6 He did that there and he blocked what looked like to me a certain goal .
7 Erm , my fear of this report is that we are actually erm , it shows to me a certain level of complacency .
8 His undoubted pace is being sacrificed on an altar of greater sevens savvy elsewhere in the squad which seems to me a reasonable gambit to adopt .
9 " The world constructed by the media seems to me a reasonable surrogate for " real life " , whatever that is .
10 The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion .
11 What seemed to me a golden opportunity came to hand largely through Pearn 's connections with the History department in the University , to which he had now returned .
12 I found it interesting , however , that Maxine — or Martha — experienced no anxiety due to the nearness of the sea , even when she described to me a violent storm when giant waves lashed the walls of the seaside dwellings .
13 Now the year nineteen oh nine seems to me a curious year .
14 And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better .
15 He had what seemed to me a great genius for — how can I put it ? — drawing the orchestra together and controlling it as a single expressive instrument .
16 My worst country I think would be New Zealand as I do n't remember any of the country and it would appear to me a complete stranger if I moved there .
17 It it 's obviously er er route that I 've looked at but this certainly appeals to me a damn sight more than er that .
18 This seemed to me a poor reason for making the announcement and I told him that I strongly disapproved of his breach of trust .
19 Such a transitory career as a rabbi suggests to me a new saying — ‘ sick humorists transit ingloriously ’ .
20 If I got a question wrong , which I did more often than not , he would repeat it in what seemed to me a contemptuous tone until I got it right .
21 Obviously it seems to me a good grounding for the younger horses ?
22 I went into what seemed to me a Burmese restaurant .
23 Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books , which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates , especially in the face of wartime rationing ; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes , for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill .
24 This brings to me a strange solace .
25 You have to understand its confines , and to me a psychological understanding of this kind is essential .
26 For the Institution even to contemplate withdrawing the free journal seems to me a grave injustice , particularly to senior Life Governors ( I am 78 ) …
27 It seemed to me a natural thing to do .
28 Now I 've not seen this suggested , but it seems to me a fair way of doing it .
29 Boswell had a fire in his ‘ most elegant ’ room overlooking the sea , but he did not sleep well because the sea made its wild noises , and the pillows were stuffed with the feathers of ‘ some sea-fowl , which had to me a disagreeable smell ’ .
30 That seems to me a basic requirement of er , of all the sale of food .
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