Example sentences of "seem a [adv] [adj] " 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 | They had already shared their bodies ; it seemed a little pointless to ask him to leave over something that Simone had to say . |
| 12 | The first description seemed a little vague to us , but Bill McMahon , of auctioneers and valuers Outhwaite and Litherland , made an educated guess . |
| 13 | For no particular reason , Monday always seemed a little dull . |
| 14 | The shop people seemed a little sharp . |
| 15 | As he left the dance , he noticed Tess , who seemed a little sad that he had not chosen her . |
| 16 | Only Father Paddy seemed a little dubious . |
| 17 | He was , by all accounts , a bit spooky and seemed a little distant from the other guards , perhaps because he was a representative from Tehran . |
| 18 | MIPS seemed a little diffident last week about whether it would be doing an R5000 as previously suggested ( UX 380 ) . |
| 19 | The fact that he seemed a little simple did not escape their notice but they felt such affection for him that no one ever teased him . |
| 20 | Our equipment , brought solely for a ‘ recce ’ and consisting of a seven mm rope and two ice screws , suddenly seemed a little inadequate . |
| 21 | As a Unix-with-everything house , NCR Corp 's initial launch of its Cooperation integrated software environment as an MS-DOS and OS/2 only product seemed a little odd , but the company has put that right with release 2.0 , which adds support for Unix servers and multiprocessing . |
| 22 | The whore sniffed and tried to walk with a ladylike gait ; she seemed a little drunk and occasionally stopped to pause for breath . |
| 23 | We continued fishing and although it went quiet for me Rick did have another two cats at 17lb 12oz and 12lb 8oz , but both seemed a little insignificant in the light of previous events . |
| 24 | It seemed a little drastic the way they frog-marched him through Casualty and tossed him into the street . |
| 25 | The outburst seemed a little unbalanced but nobody questioned it . |
| 26 | The College seemed a little unsure of itself . |
| 27 | While the crowds were thrilled to see them together , the horses seemed a little unsure . |
| 28 | Gordon seemed a little different , hardened by the war . |
| 29 | The house was perfect — well , it would have been perfect ; it needed a complete overhaul , of course , redecorating from top to bottom , and then I 'd thought of building some guest-houses , and it seemed a little silly to have a villa with perfect anchorage unless I used it , so I 'd thought of a yacht … |
| 30 | She was n't trying to look coquettish , but she seemed a little silly all the same . |