Example sentences of "seemed [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has always seemed to me rather sad that almost any move from beat duty is regarded as a promotion . |
| 2 | Beyond this , I do not accept much of the Freudian mythological apparatus , though Civilization and its Discontents has always seemed to me a penetrating if deeply pessimistic work of cultural analysis . |
| 3 | The one position he or she should avoid is of being a kind of co-conspirator with the politician against the legitimate interests of the audience and that , it has seemed to me lately , is an increasingly easy trap to fall into . |
| 4 | As a feminist I wanted these women to stop having what seemed to me to be silly attitudes … |
| 5 | The year 's resurgence of interest in travesties of middle-aged women , all ugly , strident and terminally randy , boucing around alongside girls in doublets and hose or whatever , intent on making respectful love to sugary heroines in lacy crinolines , has always seemed to me extraordinary . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It has often seemed to me that the combination of boredom after intense campaigning and the only alternative offered — luxurious idleness — was indeed reminiscent of what the censorious historians of the late Roman Republic saw as the existence which sapped the fibre of Hannibal 's army when in winter quarters in Campania after Can nae . |
| 8 | As for church raffles , football club sweeps and fairground tombola , they are fizzy lemonade in comparison and football pools have always seemed to me as harmless as the Christmas sherry . |
| 9 | It has always seemed to me that in pupils ' day to day work and more specifically in their exercise books , we have a reasonable body of evidence which can be evaluated , probably in the school , moderated , probably by other teachers and headmasters and allowed to count in some way towards the success of pupils . |
| 10 | One of the great mysteries of the Bible , it has always seemed to me , was how Daniel managed to interpret the writing on the wall at Belshazzar 's impious feast . |
| 11 | Tea has always seemed to me a childish and pointless affair , but it has the advantage of being morally blameless and socially safe . |
| 12 | Investment trusts , with their lower charges , have always seemed to me to be better value than unit trusts but both are eminently sensible vehicles for PEPs and the ending of the discrimination against them is welcome . |
| 13 | The need for the Labour Party to abandon the trade union block vote has seemed to me an open-and-shut case since I first wrote advocating it , in the old Manchester Guardian , in 1957 . |
| 14 | I was emotionally prepared because I had just had what seemed to me then an incredibly traumatic experience . |
| 15 | They have always seemed to me either embarrassing or insincere . ’ |
| 16 | The fact that the organisers decided that it was time to show Spanish Pop and the French New Realists made sense ; Martial Raysse has always seemed to me a very interesting artist , but he has been ignored outside France . |
| 17 | In particular the Concerto grosso had seemed to me fairly small beer beside the superb Fifth Symphony ( = Concerto grosso No. 4 ) with which it is coupled on Chailly 's Decca disc . |
| 18 | The longer I have spent in politics , the more imperative this has seemed to me . |
| 19 | The translator described ‘ the party ’ as the collective hero of Serge 's ( 1978 ) Conquered City , but it has always seemed to me that in both that work and in Birth of Our Power ( 1977 ) the great proletarian cities of Petrograd and Barcelona are actors in their own right . |
| 20 | My perversity had seemed to me amusing . |
| 21 | Compared to its high-street rivals , the Thresher chain of wine shops has seemed to me a little too low profile for its own good . |
| 22 | But on nearly all occasions the answers have actually seemed to me not to require any special insight into unique cultural peculiarities . |
| 23 | And it has always seemed to me that at that moment Wes walked back into his old life . |
| 24 | In the past decade it has seemed to me , perhaps over-optimistically , that the logic of interaction was taking command over what we teach , and the things that we try to do . |
| 25 | It has always seemed to me a pity that Evelyn Waugh , the one person present with a gift for writing , was blind to the historical significance of the occasion , impercipient of this last manifestation of Abyssinia 's traditional pageantry . |
| 26 | It has always seemed to me that people vote in a new government not because they actually agree with their politics but just because they want a change . |
| 27 | Bu bu bu bu but what , what was happening seemed to me to be consistent with that . |
| 28 | We 've looked at those initiatives and there seem seemed to me to be to be three approaches . |