Example sentences of "it seemed to [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It seemed to him that he at last had a friend .
2 It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree .
3 As a guiding principle , it seemed to me that future business information systems must not only be able to cope with all the many individual sources of business information , but also , such systems should be able to rank those sources in importance using various appropriate criteria .
4 At this time ( the late 1970s ) , I was teaching courses in the sociology of deviance to degree and social work students , and it seemed to me that certain key ideas and insights from this work could usefully be applied to the study of child abuse .
5 But it seemed to me that , had they loved one another well , they would have been able to support one another in their tragedy .
6 Indeed it seemed to me that what they were involved in was some sort of violence , and I felt frightened .
7 In those days , it seemed to me that released hostages had come out of deepest , darkest Africa .
8 Even if we discount the fact that Rothmans was the British hope in the last Whitbread Round the World Race , it seemed to me that Yachting World took the opportunity to mention tobacco companies wherever possible .
9 It seemed to me that , in this way and with some fresh views to submit , and possessed with a totally new interest in the Orient , I might contribute something , however modest , to the Italian ‘ problem ’ .
10 My brother had enlisted in the Grenadier Guards , and was at Camberley , but my mother and sister were still in Merstham ; and it seemed to me that , in the event of a German landing , for which Churchill had alerted the public , a place as safe as any would be my Wiltshire village of Seend , where there was a delightful little Guest House , kept by a Mrs Earle .
11 Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly .
12 It seemed to me that various things he did could have gone into other directions , but some kind of self-protective mechanism of his just pulled him back and he did what he knew . ’
13 As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense .
14 As a non-philosopher I always used to find that a slightly depressing statement , that of Ayer 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could perhaps immediately follow that by saying ‘ Just because there 's a word for it maybe , you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self- validating in a sense ? ’
15 Now it seemed to us that freedom from disease was more likely related to the weak growth of the trees in the forest .
16 Close friendships with girls a few years older or younger than oneself were actively discouraged , and it seemed to us that to be seen in earnest conversation with a girl who belonged neither to one 's own year or one 's own house was tantamount to admitting that one was engaged in a lesbian liaison .
17 It seemed to us that April that we were seeing one of the results of total permissiveness in a rather comely young man and woman , ill-educated , but neither of them stupid , on trial at Chester Assizes for multiple murder .
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