Example sentences of "it seem [art] [adj] place " in BNC.

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1 It seemed a good place to defend ourselves against Silver and his men , because we were sure they would kill us when they returned to the ship .
2 I pulled in there as it seemed a good place to get Armstrong off the road and it was only then I saw that it was in fact an unmade road curving away round the back of the hill .
3 It seemed a strange place for a red-bearded revolutionary socialist to live .
4 It seemed a strange place to Clare .
5 I liked the town , for all its drab and muted calm ; it seemed a safe place to be .
6 To Hazel , it seemed a likely place for a weasel : or the white owl , perhaps , might fly along the escarpment at twilight , looking inwards with its stony eyes , ready to turn a few feet sideways and pick off the shelf anything that moved .
7 Leigh Lampard , assistant curator of the Kirkleatham Museum , said : ‘ With Redcar 's maritime connections and the number of men from this area who died in the tragedy , it seemed a fitting place for the plaque . ’
8 In the Samburu language ‘ yare ’ means ‘ quest ’ , so it seemed an appropriate place to stay .
9 Now I examined it , it seemed an unlikely place for Conchis 's ‘ assistants ’ to live .
10 But she made no move to leave , so I had to say not at all , I 'd gone to bed because it seemed the warmest place .
11 But with toilets , a telephone and electricity it seemed the ideal place to settle down .
12 Why does it seem a good place for a nest ? .
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