Example sentences of "it seem so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I almost did n't bother to take a degree , it seemed so pointless . |
| 2 | It seemed so pointless , the mist thicker than ever now . |
| 3 | It was all too late now and with the woman here , right in front of her , it seemed so pointless to feel animosity . |
| 4 | ‘ It seemed so real , Uncle Ma . |
| 5 | It seemed so strange to find no Sambo waiting for her in the hall . |
| 6 | It seemed so awful to me there , shabby in a cold and desolate way and so dusty and all of the sofa taken up by stacks of cushions arranged like books on a bookshelf . |
| 7 | ‘ I could n't take it seriously at first because it seemed so ridiculous , but then you look in the statute book and realise the maximum penalty for this is seven years . |
| 8 | These were songs that laced their natural exuberance with a strain of English satire that was remarkable because it seemed so unaffected . |
| 9 | Gabriel took to sitting on the cart-tail and waving to them ; it seemed so ungrateful to speed away from their flattery and blessings . |
| 10 | It seemed so right , the low burr of two voices in the pool of candlelight . |
| 11 | It seemed so terrible to see this old , old man amidst these beautiful surroundings , when nothing , she felt sure , could give him any pleasure now . |
| 12 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 13 | ‘ At first she hated it , ’ Louise continued , ‘ it seemed so remote and , in the thirties , of course , it was . |
| 14 | then all we had to do ( it seemed so easy ) |
| 15 | It seemed so stupid for him to be literally drowning in his own box . |
| 16 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 17 | It seemed so sad I could have cried . |
| 18 | It seemed so sad that Mrs MacAllister should have had so little time to enjoy this beauty and that he should be left here by himself . ’ |
| 19 | erm it seemed so disappointing to me that I mean we go to the bother of producing what a fifty odd page telephone directory and people do n't even look at it |
| 20 | It seemed so odd to think that they did n't know . |
| 21 | Yes , but it seemed so odd that the door was standing open . |
| 22 | It seemed so feeble and spindly floating there next to the toilet paper in the lavatory bowl . |
| 23 | To Foo it seemed so unreal , like a cartoon , a caricature of a big wave , that his initial reaction was to laugh . |
| 24 | It seemed so unreal and remote and fantastic and so totally away from this earth . |
| 25 | No one would explain why it seemed so important . |
| 26 | It seemed so important to him that I could not refuse , and when his sisters returned , they were surprised to find me learning Hindustani with St John . |
| 27 | Auguste agreed bleakly , but it seemed so unlikely . |
| 28 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
| 29 | It seemed so unfair but perhaps he was right . |
| 30 | It seemed so unfair , somehow . |