Example sentences of "it seem [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed familiar to Carrie . |
| 2 | It seemed strange to Maura to look up at someone . |
| 3 | Their mother had warned them to beg for forgiveness when their turn came to pray to their great-grandfather 's spirit before the altar , and it seemed certain to Lan 's ten-year-old mind that if she and her brothers had angered their father so deeply they must also have offended the spirits of their illustrious ancestors too . |
| 4 | It seemed incongruous to Dexter , inappropriate when he knew they had come to talk about violent death . |
| 5 | It seemed probable to Allen that there were still four verderers but that now they had between them only three horses . |
| 6 | His business contacts were being checked , but it seemed unlikely to Azadi that any of them would have been in a position to spirit the shipowner away at a moment 's notice . |
| 7 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 8 | Back in his own home , it seemed incredible to George that he had actually seen Tamar 's attacker at Thorsbury , and yet he was certain that the groom was the same man . |
| 9 | Remembering how General Steiner had met his end in the Gestapo cellars at Prinz Albrechtstrasse , it seemed likely to Schellenberg that Himmler might have other reasons . |
| 10 | It seemed miraculous to Kit that the old woman did not die ; that she could haul herself back to life by miracles of her own devising , or by the medicine Ariel applied . |
| 11 | Conversely , a golfer occasionally has a phase when the hole really seems larger and it seems possible to hole almost every putt . |
| 12 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |